Curriculum
Built for the people robots work beside
Four credentials for designers, strategists, and leaders who need to work confidently in a world where robots are already deployed. No engineering background required.
Curriculum
Four credentials for designers, strategists, and leaders who need to work confidently in a world where robots are already deployed. No engineering background required.
Founding Cohort · May 2026
The first REP cohort runs the first week of May 2026. This is the only time the program will run at this rate — and the only cohort where founding members get direct access to the instructor throughout.
No engineering background. No prerequisites. Just the credential the field is missing.
Flagship Certification
The REP credential is built for product designers, UX strategists, and business leaders who shape the spaces, systems, and decisions where humans and robots meet. No engineering background required.
A four-week hybrid program covering the human side of robotics — how robots perceive and act, where human-robot interaction breaks down, how to design around failure, and how to evaluate a real deployment with confidence. Culminates in a Robot Readiness Audit and your REP credential.
$205B
Global robotics market by 2030
GlobalData, 2024
36.8M
Robots already operating worldwide
IFR, 2024
78M
Net new jobs created by automation by 2030
World Economic Forum, 2025
2.1M
Skilled roles that will go unfilled without a prepared workforce
Deloitte / NAM, 2024
Credential Family
Join the list to be notified when new tracks openRobotics Experience Practitioner
Human-robot interaction, designing around failure, and evaluating real deployments. The foundational credential for anyone shaping the human side of robotics.
Robotics Product Design Practitioner
For product designers and design leads building interfaces, flows, and physical touchpoints between humans and robotic systems. Safety signaling, proxemics, error states, edge-case design.
Robotics Strategy Practitioner
For operations leads, consultants, and executives making deployment decisions. Vendor evaluation, readiness assessment, change management, and ROI framing.
Robotic Experience Researcher
For UX researchers and service designers studying how people behave around robots. Observation methods, study design in physical environments, and synthesizing findings for mixed teams.
About the Creator
Adjunct Professor, FIT & NYI · M.S. Information Design & Technology, SUNY Poly
The Robot Age was created by Michael Posso — a product designer and educator focused on the intersection of human experience and robotics. Michael holds a Master's degree in Information Design and Technology from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and teaches as an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Technology. With over 10 years of experience teaching at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels — across courses in UX, web design, and JavaScript — his work centers on product design and robotics experiences: how people interact with automated systems, and how to design those systems in ways that are clear, trustworthy, and effective. The Robot Age is the curriculum he wished existed.
