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by roland35 1314 days ago
Awesome! There are a few different paths you can take, depending on what type of robotics you are interested in.

Consumer/Commercial robotics. These are things like Roombas and Robomows. The dominate type of engineer in these companies is embedded systems and firmware engineer. You should probably switch to an electrical or computer engineering and get experience with some robotics program at your school which is smaller scale and works with microcontrollers and C/C++.

Advanced robotics. Things like Boston Dynamics. These companies also have embedded system engineers, but it is more important to have high-level controls experience. You should look for a CS or other degree which includes control theory, Digital Signal Processing, and so on. A lot of universities have robotics programs (think DARPA challenge) and teams, definitely join one of those.

Good luck!