Also called: Animatronic Figure Designer
Builds robot characters for theme parks, movies, and museums, like moving dinosaurs and lifelike figures.
Animatronics engineers design skeletons, motors, and control code, sculpt with artists, and tune motions until a figure looks alive.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in mechanical, electrical, or robotics engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering.
Growing faster than average (about 5% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps generate lifelike motion, but designing skeletons, motors and tuning figures by hand is growing robotics work.
Classes: AP Physics, Computer Science, Electronics CTE, Art/sculpture.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2199.
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