Show me the Money
This is the average starting hourly wage for an entry-level robotics technician with a 2-year degree.
$25-$30/hour? (Approx $55k/year)
Farmers use robotics to drive these massive vehicles using GPS accuracy within 1 inch.
Tractors / Harvesters
This small, trash-compacting robot falls in love with a sleek flying robot named EVE
WALL-E
A modern Ford F-150 has more lines of computer code than this 1969 spacecraft.
Apollo 11 Moon Lander
This specific trade involves fixing "vertical transportation robots" and has a median salary of over $97,000 per year.
Elevator Mechanic
This job involves using a joystick to control a robot arm underwater to fix oil rigs.
ROV Pilot (Remotely Operated Vehicle)
In Star Wars, R2-D2 and BB-8 are famous droids, but C-3PO is fluent in over 6 million forms of this.
Communication / Languages
When a mechanic plugs a tablet into your car to find a problem, they are checking the ECU, which stands for this.
Electronic Control Unit
If a robotics line breaks down in a major auto factory, the company loses approximately this much money for every single minute the line is stopped
$20,000 (to $50,000)
Modern welders often learn to "teach" this machine to do the welding for them.
Robotic Welding Cell
This Marvel superhero isn't a robot, but he wears a "robotic exoskeleton" suit powered by an Arc Reactor.
Iron Man
This safety feature in cars uses cameras and radar (robotics sensors) to stop the car automatically if you get too close to the car in front
Automatic Braking / Adaptive Cruise Control
In the next 10 years, the demand for robotics skills is expected to grow by this percentage range (approx).
9-13%
In HVAC, "Smart Thermostats" and automated dampers are actually just this type of simple robotic system.
Feedback Loop (or Control System)
These giant alien robots can disguise themselves as cars, trucks, and planes.
Transformers (or Autobots/Decepticons)
Mechanics used to listen for noises. Now, they must know how to use this tool to read sensor data.
Multimeter (or Scan Tool)
You don't need a 4-year degree to fix robots. You usually only need this type of 2-year certification.
Associate's Degree or Applied Tech Certificate
A machine is only considered a robot if it does these three things in a loop: Sense, ________, and Act.
What is Think (or Process/Compute)
In the movie Terminator, this artificial intelligence system becomes self-aware and takes over the world.
Skynet
In a new Toyota Sienna, the gas pedal is not connected to the engine by a cable. It is actually just a Sensor that sends a digital signal to the computer. This technology is known as 'Drive-By-_______
Wire