The three profiles of the MSc Robotics are there to colour your own programme towards your future career.
The profile Research prepares for a career in academia; if you are thinking of doing a PhD after your graduation. Within this profile you have to select 2 deepening courses (specfic lists for each specialisation). Furthermore, instead of an internship in your second year you can choose 4 more course to further deepen your knowledge on specific topics.
The profile Design prepares for a career at a robotics company through offering courses on development, creation, and engineering. This profile offers the possiblity to do a MSc-thesis project outside the UT with the requirements that supervision at the UT is guarenteed and no internship outside UT is done (courses instead).
The profile Innovation and Entrepreneurship prepares for a career in business or the start of a spin-off through offering business-oriented courses. Within this profile you will do the Innovation Tournament (compulsory for this profile) during which you will go through all the steps of the innovation cycle. Next to this course, you can select one more course from the prescribed list of electives for this profile.