The Texas A&M University Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Computational Robotics is a 10-week summer program designed to introduce students from computer science and related areas to research in robotics.
The program is based on the idea that "robots change everything." That is, when we use computers to make robots autonomous, the complexity and unpredictability of the physical world make a huge difference on nearly every aspect of that computing system, from the application-specific algorithms and data structures, all the way down to the lower-level considerations of security and network connectivity.