This list shows skill areas you will meet, learn, and master as you build your unique set of robots through your hobby and professional robotics career! 

• Project management

• Chassis design, structural engineering, precise measurements

• Inverse kinetics for robotic movement

• Effectors and other "hands" for robots

• Weight distribution and traction for racing robots

• paint, artwork, the "cosmetic" effects on human-like or android robots

• Materials engineering, plastics, acrylics, aluminum, fiberboard

• 3D design and CAD software, parametric drafting

• 3D Printing

• Adhesives and gluing

• Fasteners; standard and metric measurements

• Milling and CNC

• Welding

• Analog and digital electronics, Ohm's law and theory

• Multimeters and other electronic test tools

• Electric battery charging and maintenance

• Soldering

• Software development, especially in C, C++ and Python

  •     state machines, interrupts, sensor input integration

  •     real-time systems, libraries, algorithms

• Machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence -  as applicable to robots

• When to use a microprocessor versus a microcontroller

• Servos and PWM control

• DC motor controllers and design

• Brushed and brushless electric motors

• Linux and other operating systems

• Bluetooth, WiFi, I2C, TCP/IP and networking; system integration

• Cloud AI systems: Google's Tensorflow, Amazon's AWS, and Microsoft's Azure AI and Connect();

• Developing Android phone apps for robot remote control

• Processor capacity planning: how to select the best one(s) for the robot

• Sensor technologies, IR, ultrasonic, LIDAR, switches and others

• Voice recognition and text-to-speech

• Video image recognition and image processing

• Circuit design; circuit board design and production

• Working well with others and presenting your robot projects!