The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is proud to announce the addition of a new bachelor of design degree in robotics to the university's innovative program offerings. Launching in Savannah and Atlanta for the 2026–27 academic year, the program will position SCAD as the premier university for human-centered robotics education. The demand for professionals with this skill set is accelerating across several leading industries, including entertainment, health care, logistics, and retail.

"By introducing the bachelor of design in robotics, SCAD expands its trailblazing curriculum to meet the industrial demand for experts who can bridge the gap between advanced technology and human experience,” said dean of the SCAD School of Creative Technology Nye Warburton.

“This new degree empowers our students to redefine the future of automation across global markets, solidifying SCAD’s role as the vanguard of innovative, career-first education."

The global robotics market is projected to reach $146 billion by 2030. This new program will address a critical need in the robotics industry by training professionals on the cornerstone of design: placing the people who use, encounter, and are affected by technology at the center of how it is developed and built. SCAD collaborated with leading technology companies, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and NVIDIA, to build a robotics program that harnesses the full depth of the university's design disciplines to meet the needs of one of the greatest technological shifts of our time.

This new degree program will redefine robotics education by establishing human experience, design intelligence, and creative expression at the center of how robots are conceived and built.

Graduates of the SCAD robotics program will be prepared for industry leading careers including:

● Robotics interaction designer
● Human-robot interaction specialist
● Animatronics and character designer
● Robotics UX designer
● Robotics product designer
● Behavior and motion designer
● Robotics UX researcher
● Robotics industrial designer
● AI interaction designer
● Robot interface designer

Curriculum highlights for this program include ROBO 280 Automation, Society, and the Future, ROBO 380 Simulation and Digital Twins, ROBO 290 Virtual Playgrounds, and ROBO 395

STUDIO X: Embodiment, Context, and Behavior. The SCAD robotics program will prepare students to envision, prototype, and build experiences that are as human as they are intelligent.

SCAD recently launched a new bachelor of fine arts degree in themed entertainment design within the School of Creative Technology. This program prepares students to conceive and construct the immersive environments behind theme parks, attractions, resorts, cruise ships, retail experiences, museums, and live events. In 2012, SCAD was the first university to offer an M.F.A. in this multibillion-dollar global industry, and over the last decade student teams have won design competitions from a variety of theme park enterprises including Walt Disney Imagineering Design Competition and Ryerson Invitational Thrill Design Competition.

Since its founding, SCAD has continued to innovate its degree offerings with a focus on the future. Inspired by visionary companies in entertainment like Universal Studios and Disney, SCAD reinvents the boundaries between artistic expression and mechanical intelligence within the School of Creative Technology, designing the next generation of human-centered systems alongside the very companies that are defining the future of intelligent automation.

To learn more about SCAD’s new robotics degree, visit scad.edu.