The United States is behind in robotic research although we are a big buyer of the technology. The rest of the world especially in Europe and Asia are ahead of us in the field of robotics by quite a bit and pouring money into their research at a rate almost ten times our national governmental funding.

Even with this said, there are a few stand out Universities holding up our United States robotics research. For instance Carnegie Mellon University has a six-legged robot, which can scale vertical walls; great for exploring Pyramid ventilation systems to the Kings chambers, military applications of saving Earthquake survivors.

MIT has some self assembling robotic systems which are getting smarter all the time using advanced artificial intelligence, able to change shapes to get around obstacles and build themselves like a Lego castle.

There are also very small robots which can travel at speeds of 8.2 feet per second and go over two and a half miles on one battery charge. Also we have developed NASAs Mars Explorers with new prototypes with brand new features for the next generation of reconnaissance exploration vehicles.

At Berkeley, they now have small insect size flying vehicles which can fly around avoid obstacles, send back data and make decisions of which is the safest or best possible direction to continued its programmed mission.

So even though we have an irresponsible government which refuses to fund the research and development needed to guarantee of our future economic might, at least we have standouts willing to do what it takes and accept the most difficult research and applications in the real world. Think on this and think of a major in robotic sciences and a profitable career.