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Study robotics and assistive technologies at UCL
Explore our robotics and assistive tech degrees
Create new ways to interact with the physical world, treat illness and deal with danger, through UCL’s pioneering robotics and assistive technology education and research.
As robotics technology becomes more stable and versatile, an ever-greater range of opportunities have arrived for you to discover robotics applications that will improve people’s lives.
The UCL Robotics Institute draws on expertise and methodologies from across 10 different UCL departments and centres, representing disciplines like public health, architecture and the social sciences.
This ensures that we teach you to put human experience and priorities at the centre of your designs, and solve robotics engineering problems the right way.
We’re proud to be the host and a founding member of the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), an academic research and practice centre accelerating disability innovation with more than 70 partners across 60 countries.
Our work with the GDI Hub means we can offer you groundbreaking postgraduate courses such as the Disability, Design and Innovation MSc, allowing you to combine leading-edge robotics training with disability design and insights into societal models of disability.
You could also explore the rapidly evolving world of medical robotics. Working with UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, you’ll augment your robotics training with biomedical device design approaches, testing your designs in the mock operating theatre at UCL East.
If you choose to pursue research through UCL robotics, you could potentially open up an entirely new field of assistive technology. UCL Engineering researchers are currently exploring robotics applications for agriculture, autonomous vehicles, search and rescue, nuclear facility operations, construction, diagnostics, prosthetics, and much more.
Join UCL Engineering, and help us make everyday robotics a reality.
Postgraduate degrees in robotics and assistive tech in UCL Computer Science
Make a positive difference with this unique and creative Master’s, co-delivered by UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub, Loughborough University London and the London College of Fashion. You’ll acquire coding and product development skills, along with an extensive understanding of the social constructs and contexts you’ll need to pioneer disability design and innovation. You’ll also get to co-create products with disabled people and learn how to communicate and develop shared ideas and projects with a range of stakeholders across industry and the third sector.
Postgraduate degrees in robotics and assistive tech in UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
With this interdisciplinary MSc you’ll combine practical robotics skills in kinematics, motion planning and control with a foundational knowledge base in medical engineering. You’ll learn about surgical data acquisition and the trackers, robots and imaging devices used in clinical settings, working in a mock-operating room to develop and test your projects. Applicants must have undergraduate-level coding skills and experience.
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