ECE 383L · also ME 442L
Introduction to Robotics and Automation
Xianyi Cheng
Description from DukeHub
Fundamental notions in robotics, basic configurations of manipulator arm design, coordinate transformations, control functions, and robot programming. Applications of artificial intelligence, machine vision, force/torque, touch and other sensory subsystems. Design for automatic assembly concepts, tools, and techniques. Application of automated and robotic assembly costs, benefits, and economic justification. Selected laboratory and programming assignments. Prerequisites: ECE 280L or EGR 224L.
Skills
- programmingdepartment: ECE
- ai and machine learningdescription: "robotics" and 2 more
- designdescription: "design" and 1 more
- lab workhas a lab component
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "laboratory"
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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