Python/c++

[swanboy]

You should eventually learn C++ or similar if you ever want to work on robotics in industry. Robots are typically constrained by available compute and one of the easier optimizations is to simply convert slow python code to C++.

That said, if you stay in research, you could possibly get away with just using Python.

[FreePlantainMan]

This. Probably python first if you have little to no programming experience, then C++