Robotics Technicians

Build, install, test, or maintain robotic equipment or related automated production systems.

The median annual salary for Robotics Technicians in the US is $70,760.

The role is showing modest growth of 1% over the next decade. Current US employment is approximately 15,000 workers.

The typical entry education is a Associate's degree. Building a foundation in the top skills below will strengthen your application.

The most in-demand skills for this role include design drawings, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, automatic control system, robotic components. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives Robotics Technicians a score of 0.49 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.

Robotics Technicians has moderate barrier to entry — moderately gated — a bachelor's degree or equivalent training is typically required.