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Amy’s Answer

I'm sorry for the late reply. I'm not a robotics engineer. I am the founder of VolunteerCrowd. I hope you are able to find an answer.
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At my last job, my schedule revolved almost completely around implementing and testing an oil pipeline repair system. I'd get to my office, grab my laptop, and then head down to the shop. The shop guys and I would all have a JSA (job safety analysis) meeting where we briefly talked about the types of hazards we could encounter, to make sure that everybody knew the risks, was cautious, and wore proper safety equipment (moving parts, high voltages, high pressure, and dropping and tripping hazards, for example). After that, I'd wheel over a mobile cart that would let me set up my laptop and start interacting with the equipment. At this particular job, I was primarily responsible for the HMI (human-machine interface—in other words, the GUI) and helping out debugging hardware problems, so I would go out, hook the laptop up to the control box, and make sure that when I pushed, for example, the "up" button, it actually made the lift go up rather than going down or opening the clamp. Some days, I'd help the shop guys make sure that they had the electrical and hydraulic connections correct. That was pretty typical of most of my days at that job, but there were other things, too: at one point, I demonstrated the system's capabilities for a large group of customer executives, and I spent two weeks on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico testing out one of the tools on a real piece of pipeline on the ocean floor. Not gonna lie, that was brutal (36 hours awake, then 12 asleep, then 24 awake), but it was also totally awesome getting to see this thing that I'd helped build actually doing what it was supposed to do!

Of the jobs I've had, that one was definitely the most fun. There are plenty of other tasks that engineers perform (circuit design, layout, simulation, risk analysis and control, meetings, requirements, software/firmware, and the list goes on), so it really does depend on your industry (medical vs. oil and gas vs. consumer electronics, etc.) and role (mechanical, software, electrical, systems, etc.).
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