“Winning is for today, but learning is forever.”
Aaron Hammond
Mass Academy for Math and Science at WPI
WPI FIRST Team 190
“Robotics is here to stay. The more people you can get to promote it the better.”
Ken Stafford
Director, WPI Robotics Resource Center
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one of the nation’s earliest technological universities. Our founding motto in 1865 — Theory and Practice — continues to underlie our academic programs. WPI graduates emerge ready to take on critical challenges in science and technology, knowing how their work can impact society and improve the quality of life. And robots (or, more precisely, robotics) are emerging as change agents in almost every aspect of our lives—in the places we work, in our healthcare, even in our homes. Here, WPI is a recognized first in many ways:
- The first university in the nation to offer a BS in Robotics Engineering
- The first to offer BS, MS, and PhD programs simultaneously
- The first university ever to host and manage a NASA Centennial Challenge
And WPI is proud to be
- An early and consistent support of the FIRST program (founded by alumnus Dean Kamen.) WPI has set the standard for high-class, low-cost robotics tournaments, managing at least seven each year.
“Our research spans many of the important areas of robotics including human robot interaction, medical robots; we build robots that go through air, through water, on the land; they climb trees; they go underground. Any place a robot can go, we’re working on that.”
Michael Gennert
WPI Professor of Computer Science
Director, Robotics Engineering Program
