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The University of Texas at Austinthis calendar week announcedthat it has opened its undergraduate robotics programme to high school applicants . The honors program is one of the first in the U.S. that allows incoming freshmen to apply for the program as part of their initial entrance fee covering . It ’s a exonerated denotation that robotics is no longer in the realm of hyper - specialized graduate and doctorate programs .

The pocket-sized is tied to a handful of other John Roy Major , including aerospace engineering , electrical and computing equipment applied science , computational engineering , computing machine science and mechanical engineering . Each forms a foundational part of an eventual robotics major . With the ascension of robotics in eminent school STEAM instruction , the programme is designed to maintain incoming freshmen ’s interest in the growing distance .

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