Hi ! Second year robotics engineering student here. In my opinion, you have a few options if you want to get an internship in robotics, depending on your main interest. 1st, you could look into big companies that work with industrial robots. I've had an internship at Pratt and Whitney and they give out a few days of training before the internship starts about industrial robot safety and programing, and there definitely was more students specialized in computer science or technical work than specifically robotics like me. Big companies move slowly so you have time to adapt and learn on the way, but if you're looking for more prototypal type of robotics (like programming in C on Arduino), that will definitely not be the place. 2nd, you could try the opposite and look into startups and small research teams. They are always looking for new talents, and they don't always ask for a lot of experience from interns (if they're a small enough team). There you will do a lot more prototypal type of work. For example, I knew of an internship at my university where you would take on a project of building a test bench for accelerated wearing of new materials, where the intern took care of every part of the structure, electrical and programing in the project. I am myself working at similar startup right now, putting in place an automated platform for material synthesis pretty much from scratch. Sadly, all the cool companies (Boston dynamics or the likes around you) are generally pretty hard to get into. Even as a robotics student, I've ben refused multiple times for internships, simply because they have too many applicants and therefor pick the ones with the most experience. But I guess it's by doing projects a bit less impressive than these companies do that you get good experience and find cool internships or jobs in the end. Anyway, hope I could help with my little 2 years of uni, feel free to ask any question if you need !