I absolutely agree about CS and MechE but I my experience is that you can generally do just fine without anything cutting edge in terms of electrical engineerin

I absolutely agree about CS and MechE but I my experience is that you can generally do just fine without anything cutting edge in terms of electrical engineering until you've grown a fair bit. Depending on what you're doing you might not need anything but off the shelf components like the hands we sell[1], the arms Universal Robotics sells, etc. Or if you're doing something more advanced it's probably using standard motors and ICs with a custom PCB. It's only when you're getting more advanced that you want more control of, e.g., the power system for production quality robots. [1] Shameless plug http://www.righthandrobotics.com/ http://www.righthandrobotics.com/