Robotics Engineers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Supervise technologists, technicians, or other engineers.
• Integrate robotics with peripherals, such as welders, controllers, or other equipment.
• Provide technical support for robotic systems.
• Review or approve designs, calculations, or cost estimates.
• Make system device lists or event timing charts.
• Document robotic application development, maintenance, or changes.
• Write algorithms or programming code for ad hoc robotic applications.
• Create back-ups of robot programs or parameters.
• Process or interpret signals or sensor data.
• Investigate mechanical failures or unexpected maintenance problems.
• Install, calibrate, operate, or maintain robots.
• Debug robotics programs.
• Design end-of-arm tooling.
• Conduct research on robotic technology to create new robotic systems or system capabilities.
• Conduct research into the feasibility, design, operation, or performance of robotic mechanisms, components, or systems, such as planetary rovers, multiple mobile robots, reconfigurable robots, or man-machine interactions.
• Design automated robotic systems to increase production volume or precision in high-throughput operations, such as automated ribonucleic acid (RNA) analysis or sorting, moving, or stacking production materials.
• Design software to control robotic systems for applications, such as military defense or manufacturing.
• Design robotic systems, such as automatic vehicle control, autonomous vehicles, advanced displays, advanced sensing, robotic platforms, computer vision, or telematics systems.
• Build, configure, or test robots or robotic applications.
• Evaluate robotic systems or prototypes.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Plan mobile robot paths and teach path plans to robots.
• Automate assays on laboratory robotics.
• Design or program robotics systems for environmental clean-up applications to minimize human exposure to toxic or hazardous materials or to improve the quality or speed of clean-up operations.
• Design robotics applications for manufacturers of green products, such as wind turbines or solar panels, to increase production time, eliminate waste, or reduce costs.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)