Integrating Medical Robotics in the Robinson Program

The Robinson curriculum contains a novel approach to improve the engineering education, to enhance technological literacy of students from nonengineering fields and to increase in the number of students, especially young women, in the fields of engineering and natural sciences. Since robotics holds a special fascination among all the technological fields - due to its cross-disciplinary approach as well as its popularity through movies and literature -, this field allows hands-on teaching of scientific and engineering methodologies at an early stage of the academic education, not limited to engineering students but encompassing students from all academic - and even pre-academic - areas.