Robotics Institute

1. December 9, 2021

   U-M creates first robotics department among top 10 engineering schools

   The Board of Regents has approved the creation of the Department of Robotics in the College of Engineering, which will define robotics as a discipline, teaching students the skills needed to help drive an expanding field.

2. March 16, 2021

   U-M, Ford open world-class robotics complex on North Campus

   U-M and Ford Motor Co. are opening a one-of-a-kind facility, where they’ll develop robots and roboticists that help make lives better, keep people safer and build a more equitable society.

3. October 14, 2019

   UMMA, CoE working to bring robots to the art world

   Faculty, staff and students from the U-M Museum of Art and the College of Engineering’s Robotics Institute are working to develop a robot docent at the museum.

4. April 13, 2018

   University breaks ground on new Ford Robotics Building

   Officials broke ground Friday on the $75 million Ford Motor Company Robotics Building, a 140,000-square-foot, four-story complex of classrooms, offices and tailored lab space for a variety of robotic technologies.