And that's not all that strange in my experience. I'm a ME with limited formal training, and am now "The" robot guy in my company. Sometimes we're lucky enough to get sent to a manufacturer for a week of training on the company's dime (the last one I went to was about $2k USD, plus travel and accommodations) but that's hit or miss. Mostly industrial controls engineers/PLC programmers, but I was a mechanical engineer, which isn't uncommon. Quite a few of us, if not most of us, worked in the industry in a different role and slowly transitioned into doing more and more with robots. The first, and by far more likely of the two to get you a position, is job experience. ![]() ![]() If you want to get into being a full-time industrial robot programmer, there's two things that'll get you a job.
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