Michigan Robotics offers Masters and PhD degrees. The program is ranked 2nd in the nation. Both programs are built on a common set of course requirements, with PhD students also completing research published in leading journals in the field of robotics.

The Michigan Robotics program consists of three main technical areas, which converge as students produce functioning robots:

• Sensing of the environment, external agents, and internal body information to determine state information
• Reasoning with that information to make decisions for guidance, control, and localization
• Acting upon the body and environment to produce motion or other outputs that enable the robot to locomote or interact with the environment