Mechatronics Engineering is not a pure engineering branch, instead of a merger of various engineering fields, major ingredients are mechanical, electronics, control & computer engineering and is used to design smart & intelligent machines. Its name is also taken from the first two major fields i.e. "Mecha" from Mechanical & "Tronics" from Electronics. Apart from these two main engineering fields, it also has the flavor of computer, telecommunication, robotics, control, systems engineering, etc. Mechatronics has a wide range of advanced fields & a few of them are Robotics, Automation, Embedded Systems, Control Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc.

Before Mechatronics Degree, machines were quite simple and weren't smart enough to work on their own so human operators were required to operate them, which resulted in human error, cost-inefficiency, time wastage, etc. With the evolution of technology, engineers got to know about Machine Learning & they started designing smart systems for controlling mechanical machines/structures with electronics(embedded to be precise) circuitry i.e. Electric Locomotive. Let's understand it with an example. You must have seen robots in sci-fi tv shows, they have a mechanical structure and electronics circuitry embedded inside them. So, if you want to design robots, you need to hire two different engineers i.e. mechanical engineer for structure/body designing & an electronics engineer for designing the circuitry. So, in order to fill this gap & to make the process cost-efficient, Mechatronics Degree was introduced. The degree of Mechatronics has further evolved with the addition of computer-aided design software. Another example is a car rear-view mirror. Initially, it was a simple mirror. Now it has cameras, compass direction, register temperature, sensory systems, etc. Mechatronics is behind these revolutionary changes. Mechatronics devices are also used in medicine, home, commercial buildings, agriculture, toys, etc.

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