Also called: AMR Technician, AGV Technician
Keeps fleets of self-driving carts and robots that haul parts around factories and warehouses charged, mapped and running.
Forty little robots zip around the building carrying bins, and your job is to keep them happy. You swap a worn wheel, re-map an aisle after a shelf moved, and figure out why two robots keep stopping at the same corner. It feels a bit like managing a robot traffic system.
Estimate; a new job title.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. High school plus a short technical program or on-the-job training; electronics background helps.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification, 2-year college. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology (certificate), Mechatronics Technology.
Growing much faster than average. New role growing quickly with warehouse and factory robots.
Low risk for 10 years. AMR fleets are spreading fast; mapping, charging, fixing and recovering stuck robots need hands-on techs.
Classes: Electronics class, Computer science, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9071.
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