The UK's National Robotarium is located on Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh campus and makes us an international centre for excellence in robotics. Study MSc Robotics with us to develop advanced knowledge in modern robotics and apply your learning to industry.
MSc Robotics at Heriot-Watt University provides you industry-relevant training in core elements of modern robotics and autonomous systems.
This one-year postgraduate masters degree in Robotics is linked to the UK's National Robotarium and will equip you to work in industry and wider society in areas where robots can be used to improve productivity, transform transportation, work in extreme environments, and improve quality of life.
A first class or upper second honours degree in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science or other relevant disciplines with a numerate background and sufficient computer programming experience. Equivalent overseas qualifications will also be considered.
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MANDATORY COURSES
Robotics Systems Science
Intelligent Robotics
OPTIONAL COURSES
Embedded Systems
Internet of Things
Biologically Inspired Computation
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Human Robot Interaction
Scalable Inference & Deep Learning
Semester 2
MANDATORY COURSES
Machine Vision
Robotic Mechanical Systems
OPTIONAL COURSES
Embedded Software
Critical Analysis and Research Preparation
Conversational Agents and Spoken Language Processing
System Thinking & Analysis
Image Processing
Scalable Inference and Deep Learning II
Research Methods and Project Plan
Semester 3
MSc Project
The contact hours for the taught part of the MSc are in the region of 16 to 20 hours per week with a similar amount of additional self-study and research required.
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