ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MENG

Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

Join us on the exciting, interdisciplinary MEng Robotics and Artificial Intelligence programme at UCL, where you'll absorb leading-edge research and use it to engineer real-world solutions. As an expert in this field, you’ll help to forge a future where intelligent robots can support humans to overcome complex practical challenges.

Robotics technologies are set to transform our societies and improve our lives, performing complex and dangerous physical tasks for us with power, consistency and precision.

On this 4-year integrated Master's programme, you’ll work alongside the pioneering AI and robotics experts who are finding new applications for these technologies every day, in diverse fields such as life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, operational services, transportation, and more.

Drawing on the expertise of world-leading academics and researchers across the disciplines of computer science, AI, electronic and mechanical engineering, you’ll combine theoretical frameworks and approaches from all these areas to solve real-world problems. You’ll put your solutions into practice using the state-of-the-art robotics labs available at UCL East.

You’ll develop a wide range of practical computing skills, applying algorithms to data, debugging, designing and running experiments.

You’ll also engage deeply with the ethical considerations and dilemmas surrounding transformative AI and robotics technologies, evaluating the possible societal and environmental implications of new developments in this field. By the time you graduate, your expertise will extend beyond the technical â€" you'll be a conscientious and responsible practitioner, with the tools and expertise to help shape and change the world for the better.
What this course will give you

This programme offers you the following benefits and opportunities:

- Immerse yourself in practical robotics, with access to our suite of robotics facilities containing industrial, educational and service robotic systems.
- Gain opportunities to work on real-world engineering challenges with industry partners such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and the NHS, through the department’s Industry Exchange Network (IXN).
- Study at UCL East - our new, purpose designed campus in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 
- Graduate from one of the world’s most influential computer science departments. UCL is currently ranked first in England and second in the UK for research power in computer science and informatics (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
- Learn from leading academics and absorb perspectives from globally-recognised research groups. UCL was named The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2024 and is consistently ranked among the best universities globally (ranked 9th in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025).
As a graduate of this course, you’ll possess key critical skills in mathematics, engineering, computer science, AI and robotics.

These core technical competencies, combined with your practical group project experience and Master’s-level research methods, leave you well equipped for a wide variety of roles across a range of industries.

Due to the rapid expansion of applications for AI and robotics technologies, our graduates will find themselves, their skills and competencies in increasingly high demand.