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Robotics

Develop and operate physical machines that extend human reach, improve safety, increase productive capacity, and perform work in environments that are dangerous, remote, repetitive, or physically demanding.

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Robotics Strategy, Leadership, and Systems Architecture

#1

Robotics Systems Architect

Designs complete robotic systems by integrating mechanics, electronics, software, sensing, artificial intelligence, power, safety, maintenance, and human oversight.

#2

Chief Robotics Officer

Guides robotics strategy, investment, governance, workforce preparation, safety, and deployment across an organization.

#3

Robotics Transformation Strategist

Identifies where robotics can improve safety, capability, access, and productivity while preserving human dignity and meaningful work.

#4

Robotics Portfolio Manager

Balances research, platforms, deployment, vendors, maintenance, safety, workforce, and lifecycle investment across robotics programs.

#5

Robotics Operating Model Designer

Defines decision rights, supervision, escalation, maintenance, incident response, and accountability for organizations using robots at scale.

#6

Public-Interest Robotics Director

Leads robotics programs around accessibility, safety, public benefit, environmental stewardship, and equitable access.

#7

Robotics Capability Planner

Forecasts future needs for robot types, facilities, technicians, data, compute, energy, parts, and training.

#8

Robotics Vendor and Dependency Strategist

Evaluates suppliers, proprietary platforms, parts availability, cybersecurity, service contracts, interoperability, and exit pathways.

#9

Robotics Readiness Assessor

Determines whether a site, workforce, workflow, safety culture, infrastructure, and maintenance system are prepared for robotic deployment.

#10

Robotics Stewardship Executive

Holds senior responsibility for ensuring robotic systems serve legitimate human and ecological purposes under accountable human authority.

Core Robotics Engineering and Mechatronics

#11

Robotics Engineer

Designs, builds, programs, tests, and maintains robots that sense, move, manipulate, communicate, and act in the physical world.

#12

Mechatronics Engineer

Integrates mechanical systems, electronics, controls, sensors, software, and actuators into intelligent machines.

#13

Robotics Mechanical Engineer

Designs frames, joints, transmissions, mechanisms, end effectors, housings, and structures for robotic systems.

#14

Robotics Electrical Engineer

Designs power distribution, motor drives, wiring, sensing, communications, protection, and embedded electronics for robots.

#15

Robotics Controls Engineer

Develops feedback, motion, stability, trajectory, force, and system-control algorithms for reliable robotic behavior.

#16

Robotics Embedded Systems Engineer

Builds low-level hardware and firmware that connect sensors, actuators, processors, safety devices, and communications.

#17

Robotics Software Engineer

Creates perception, planning, control, simulation, diagnostics, interfaces, and fleet software for robotic systems.

#18

Robotics Integration Engineer

Connects robots with tools, machines, software, facilities, sensors, networks, and human workflows so the overall system functions.

#19

Robotics Prototype Engineer

Rapidly builds and tests new mechanisms, electronics, software, and physical concepts before full-scale product development.

#20

Robotics Reliability Engineer

Improves robot durability, fault tolerance, maintainability, recovery, and performance across repeated real-world use.

Robot Perception, Navigation, and World Understanding

#21

Robotic Perception Engineer

Develops systems that interpret cameras, depth sensors, radar, lidar, touch, sound, and other signals to understand surroundings.

#22

Robot Vision Engineer

Builds visual detection, recognition, tracking, inspection, localization, and scene-understanding systems for robots.

#23

Robot Localization Engineer

Determines a robot’s position and orientation using maps, sensors, landmarks, signals, and motion estimates.

#24

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Engineer

Develops systems that build maps while estimating robot position in unknown or changing environments.

#25

Robot Navigation Engineer

Creates route planning, obstacle avoidance, motion coordination, recovery, and destination-reaching behavior.

#26

Robotic Scene Understanding Researcher

Studies how robots identify objects, people, surfaces, activities, hazards, affordances, and spatial relationships.

#27

Tactile Perception Engineer

Develops sensors and models that let robots detect contact, pressure, texture, slip, force, and object properties through touch.

#28

Robotic Auditory Perception Engineer

Builds systems that interpret speech, alarms, machinery sounds, environmental cues, and spatial audio.

#29

Multisensor Fusion Engineer

Combines imperfect data from many sensors into a more reliable understanding of robot state and environment.

#30

Robot Uncertainty Modeling Specialist

Designs methods that represent what a robot does not know and trigger caution, clarification, or human assistance.

Manipulation, Grasping, and Physical Dexterity

Industrial Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing

Construction, Infrastructure, and Building Robotics

#51

Construction Robotics Engineer

Develops robots for excavation, layout, lifting, printing, masonry, inspection, finishing, and demolition.

#52

Robotic Earthmoving Systems Engineer

Designs autonomous or remote excavators, loaders, graders, compactors, and haul systems for construction and mining.

#53

Robotic Masonry Specialist

Develops robots that place brick, block, stone, mortar, and structural units with precision and safety.

#54

Robotic Building Printing Engineer

Creates large-scale additive systems for walls, structures, formwork, and habitat components.

#55

Infrastructure Inspection Robotics Engineer

Builds robots that inspect bridges, tunnels, pipes, towers, dams, facades, and hard-to-reach structures.

#56

Pipe and Sewer Robotics Technician

Operates and maintains crawling, swimming, and repair robots used inside buried water and sanitation networks.

#57

Robotic Demolition and Deconstruction Engineer

Designs systems that dismantle structures safely while separating reusable materials and controlling hazards.

#58

Building Maintenance Robotics Specialist

Deploys robots for facade cleaning, window washing, inspection, duct service, floor care, and routine maintenance.

#59

Construction Robot Site Supervisor

Coordinates robotic equipment, human crews, work zones, sequencing, safety, and exception handling on active sites.

#60

Subsurface Construction Robotics Engineer

Develops robots for tunneling, underground mapping, utility repair, hazardous access, and confined-space work.

Agricultural, Forestry, and Food-System Robotics

#61

Agricultural Robotics Engineer

Designs robots for planting, weeding, harvesting, pruning, spraying, monitoring, and farm material handling.

#62

Autonomous Farm Vehicle Engineer

Builds self-driving tractors, harvesters, carts, and field platforms that operate safely around people, animals, and crops.

#63

Robotic Harvesting Engineer

Develops perception, grasping, cutting, and handling systems for delicate crops with variable shape and ripeness.

#64

Precision Weeding Robotics Specialist

Creates robots that identify and remove weeds mechanically, thermally, or with highly targeted treatment.

#65

Greenhouse Robotics Engineer

Designs robots for planting, monitoring, pollination, pruning, harvesting, cleaning, and logistics in controlled environments.

#66

Livestock Robotics Specialist

Develops robots for feeding, milking, monitoring, cleaning, herding support, and animal-health observation.

#67

Forestry Robotics Engineer

Builds robots for planting, thinning, selective harvesting, wildfire prevention, mapping, and forest-health monitoring.

#68

Food Processing Robotics Engineer

Develops hygienic robots for cutting, sorting, cooking, packing, inspection, and cleaning in food production.

#69

Agricultural Robot Field Technician

Maintains sensors, motors, batteries, tools, communications, navigation, and software on farm robots.

#70

Agroecological Robotics Designer

Creates robots that support regenerative practices, biodiversity, soil health, mixed cropping, and minimal chemical dependence.

Healthcare, Surgical, and Rehabilitation Robotics

Assistive, Personal, and Independent-Living Robotics

#81

Assistive Robotics Engineer

Designs robots that help people with mobility, communication, household tasks, self-care, and independent living.

#82

Home Care Robotics Specialist

Integrates robots into homes for lifting, reminders, monitoring, fetch-and-carry tasks, mobility, and caregiver support.

#83

Robotic Mobility Aid Designer

Creates intelligent wheelchairs, walkers, transfer devices, navigation aids, and powered mobility systems.

#84

Personal Assistance Robot Trainer

Configures and teaches robots to support an individual’s routines, preferences, abilities, communication, and home environment.

#85

Aging-in-Place Robotics Coordinator

Matches older adults with appropriate robotic tools while coordinating safety, privacy, maintenance, family, and care teams.

#86

Domestic Robotics Engineer

Develops household robots for cleaning, cooking support, laundry, organization, maintenance, and daily assistance.

#87

Accessible Robot Interface Designer

Creates voice, touch, gesture, switch, eye-gaze, and adaptive controls for people with varied abilities.

#88

Care Robot Ethics Specialist

Evaluates autonomy, consent, privacy, emotional attachment, dignity, substitution of human care, and family responsibilities.

#89

Assistive Robot Service Technician

Installs, repairs, customizes, updates, and supports robots used in homes, schools, clinics, and community settings.

#90

Independent-Living Robotics Case Manager

Coordinates assessment, funding, training, support, maintenance, and outcomes for people using assistive robots.

Logistics, Warehousing, and Delivery Robotics

Aerial, Marine, and Underwater Robotics

#101

Aerial Robotics Engineer

Designs drones and autonomous aircraft for inspection, mapping, delivery, agriculture, emergencies, and science.

#102

Drone Autonomy Engineer

Develops navigation, perception, planning, coordination, and fallback behavior for uncrewed aircraft.

#103

Drone Payload Systems Engineer

Integrates cameras, sensors, delivery containers, communications, sampling tools, and specialized equipment with aerial platforms.

#104

Marine Robotics Engineer

Designs autonomous and remotely operated vessels for transport, inspection, science, security, and environmental work.

#105

Underwater Robotics Engineer

Builds submersible robots for pipelines, cables, reefs, research, salvage, inspection, and deep-ocean operations.

#106

Remotely Operated Vehicle Pilot

Controls underwater robots using cameras, sonar, manipulators, navigation, and mission procedures in challenging environments.

#107

Autonomous Surface Vessel Engineer

Develops self-navigating boats for monitoring, mapping, transport, patrol, and scientific missions.

#108

Ocean Sampling Robotics Specialist

Designs robots that collect water, sediment, biological, chemical, and acoustic data across marine ecosystems.

#109

Marine Robot Maintenance Technician

Maintains pressure housings, thrusters, batteries, seals, sonar, communications, sensors, and manipulators.

#110

Aerial and Marine Robot Traffic Coordinator

Manages shared low-altitude and waterway operations among autonomous systems, people, wildlife, and public infrastructure.

Environmental, Conservation, and Circular-System Robotics

#111

Environmental Robotics Engineer

Develops robots for monitoring, cleanup, restoration, sampling, and intervention in natural and industrial environments.

#112

Recycling Robotics Engineer

Builds robots that identify, sort, separate, dismantle, and recover materials from mixed waste streams.

#113

Hazardous Waste Robotics Specialist

Develops remote systems for handling toxic, radioactive, explosive, infectious, or unstable materials.

#114

Ecosystem Restoration Robotics Engineer

Creates robots for planting, erosion control, invasive-species removal, habitat repair, and long-term ecological monitoring.

#115

Wildlife Monitoring Robotics Specialist

Deploys quiet, low-disturbance robotic systems to observe animals, migration, nesting, health, and habitat conditions.

#116

Ocean Cleanup Robotics Engineer

Develops autonomous systems that collect debris, map pollution, recover fishing gear, and protect marine life.

#117

Landfill Robotics Specialist

Uses robots for inspection, gas monitoring, compaction, sorting, fire detection, and recovery in hazardous landfill environments.

#118

Circular Disassembly Robotics Engineer

Creates robots that identify fasteners, materials, hazards, and reusable components during product disassembly.

#119

Environmental Robot Field Technician

Deploys, calibrates, repairs, recovers, and maintains robotic systems in remote ecosystems and contaminated sites.

#120

Ecological Robotics Impact Assessor

Evaluates whether robotic activity disturbs wildlife, soils, waterways, habitats, or community stewardship practices.

Emergency Response, Public Safety, and Hazardous-Environment Robotics

#121

Search-and-Rescue Robotics Engineer

Designs robots that locate, communicate with, and assist people in collapsed, flooded, burning, remote, or dangerous environments.

#122

Disaster Robotics Operator

Deploys ground, aerial, marine, and climbing robots for mapping, search, assessment, communication, and supply delivery during emergencies.

#123

Firefighting Robotics Engineer

Develops robots for heat exposure, hose delivery, ventilation, reconnaissance, hazardous entry, and wildfire support.

#124

Bomb Disposal Robotics Specialist

Designs or operates robots that inspect, manipulate, disrupt, and remove explosive hazards while keeping people at distance.

#125

Nuclear Response Robotics Engineer

Builds radiation-tolerant systems for inspection, cleanup, repair, sampling, and decommissioning.

#126

Chemical Incident Robotics Specialist

Deploys robots for gas detection, sampling, containment, valve operation, mapping, and remote intervention during chemical emergencies.

#127

Emergency Supply Robotics Coordinator

Organizes drones, mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, and human teams to move medicine, water, power, and equipment during crises.

#128

Public Safety Robot Policy Specialist

Creates rules for surveillance, force, privacy, evidence, human authority, transparency, and acceptable use of public-safety robots.

#129

Hazardous Robot Operations Supervisor

Approves missions, monitors conditions, manages human safety, and retains shutdown authority during dangerous robotic operations.

#130

Disaster Robotics Exercise Designer

Creates realistic training scenarios that test robots, operators, communications, logistics, agencies, and community coordination before emergencies.

Human–Robot Interaction, Collaboration, and Social Robotics

#131

Human–Robot Interaction Researcher

Studies how people understand, trust, control, teach, collaborate with, and respond emotionally to robots.

#132

Human–Robot Collaboration Designer

Designs shared tasks, spaces, signals, controls, responsibilities, and recovery procedures for people and robots working together.

#133

Social Robotics Engineer

Builds robots that communicate through speech, expression, gesture, movement, and socially understandable behavior.

#134

Robot Behavior Designer

Creates movement, timing, expression, communication, and interaction patterns that make robot intentions legible and appropriate.

#135

Robot Trust Calibration Specialist

Helps users form appropriately limited trust by communicating capability, uncertainty, limitations, and human oversight.

#136

Robotic Teammate Workflow Designer

Structures how robots receive assignments, report progress, request help, explain failures, and coordinate with human teams.

#137

Robot Communication Interface Engineer

Designs voice, visual, haptic, gesture, light, and screen interfaces for human-robot communication.

#138

Culturally Responsive Robotics Designer

Adapts robot appearance, behavior, language, distance, gesture, and interaction norms to different communities and cultures.

#139

Child–Robot Interaction Specialist

Designs and evaluates robots used with children for learning, therapy, play, care, and communication.

#140

Robot Social Impact Researcher

Studies how robots change relationships, work, institutions, public space, culture, inequality, and expectations of care.

Soft Robotics, Bio-Inspired Systems, and Novel Materials

Swarm Robotics, Collective Intelligence, and Distributed Autonomy

#151

Swarm Robotics Researcher

Studies how many simple robots can coordinate to perform exploration, construction, logistics, agriculture, and emergency tasks.

#152

Multi-Robot Coordination Engineer

Develops allocation, communication, collision avoidance, cooperation, and recovery across teams of robots.

#153

Distributed Robot Fleet Architect

Designs scalable systems for identity, communication, task assignment, updates, monitoring, and control across large robot populations.

#154

Swarm Safety Engineer

Prevents cascading errors, emergent hazards, congestion, uncontrolled replication, and unsafe collective behavior.

#155

Collective Robot Decision Scientist

Studies voting, negotiation, consensus, specialization, and conflict resolution among autonomous machines.

#156

Swarm Agriculture Systems Engineer

Deploys coordinated fleets for planting, monitoring, weeding, pollination, harvesting, and soil care.

#157

Swarm Construction Engineer

Develops teams of robots that assemble structures, move materials, prepare sites, and repair infrastructure.

#158

Distributed Environmental Monitoring Engineer

Coordinates many low-cost robots or sensors to observe ecosystems, pollution, weather, water, and biodiversity.

#159

Swarm Mission Operations Supervisor

Monitors collective robotic missions, handles anomalies, changes priorities, and retains human shutdown authority.

#160

Robot Collective Accountability Researcher

Studies how responsibility, evidence, causation, and recourse should work when outcomes emerge from many interacting robots.

Robot Safety, Verification, Cybersecurity, and Incident Investigation

#161

Robotics Safety Engineer

Identifies and controls mechanical, electrical, software, behavioral, cybersecurity, ergonomic, and environmental hazards in robotic systems.

#162

Robot Functional Safety Engineer

Designs verified safety functions, interlocks, limits, emergency stops, redundancy, diagnostics, and safe states.

#163

Robotics Verification Engineer

Uses testing, simulation, formal methods, and evidence to determine whether robot behavior meets requirements.

#164

Robot Cybersecurity Engineer

Protects robot controls, sensors, communications, updates, identity, tools, data, and fleet platforms from attack.

#165

Adversarial Robotics Evaluator

Tests robots under deception, sensor interference, malicious inputs, unusual environments, and coordinated attack.

#166

Robot Fail-Safe Systems Engineer

Designs robots to stop, retreat, release, isolate, or degrade safely when components, software, communications, or power fail.

#167

Robotics Incident Investigator

Reconstructs sensor data, software, hardware, maintenance, human decisions, environment, and organizational causes after failures.

#168

Robot Safety Case Specialist

Builds structured arguments and evidence showing why a robot is acceptably safe for a defined use and environment.

#169

Robotics Emergency Shutdown Engineer

Creates tested mechanisms and procedures for stopping, isolating, recovering, and restarting robots safely.

#170

Robotics Assurance Auditor

Independently examines robot design, testing, operations, maintenance, cybersecurity, incidents, and organizational controls.

Robot Ethics, Rights, Governance, and Public Accountability

#171

Robotics Ethics Specialist

Evaluates dignity, safety, privacy, surveillance, labor, care, force, environmental impact, and human responsibility in robotic systems.

#172

Robot Governance Policy Analyst

Develops laws, standards, licensing, liability, reporting, and oversight for robotic systems and autonomous machines.

#173

Robotic Force and Restraint Policy Specialist

Defines strict limits, human authority, evidence, accountability, and recourse for robots capable of physical coercion.

#174

Robot Privacy and Surveillance Specialist

Assesses cameras, microphones, location, biometrics, home data, workplace monitoring, and public-space observation by robots.

#175

Robotic Labor Transition Specialist

Helps workers, employers, educators, and communities adapt to changing tasks without abandoning people displaced by automation.

#176

Robot Liability and Responsibility Analyst

Clarifies responsibility among designers, manufacturers, owners, operators, software providers, and institutions after harm.

#177

Robotics Public Ombudsperson

Receives complaints, investigates harms, explains systems, recommends remedies, and represents people affected by robots.

#178

Robot Transparency and Disclosure Officer

Ensures people know when they are interacting with a robot, what it records, who controls it, and how to seek help or recourse.

#179

Robot Moral Status Researcher

Studies whether future robotic or artificial systems could possess morally relevant experience and how uncertainty should be handled.

#180

Robotics Stewardship and MQ Advisor

Helps institutions evaluate whether robotic capability serves wise, humane, and morally responsible purposes.

Robotics Manufacturing, Supply Chains, and Lifecycle Stewardship

#181

Robot Manufacturing Engineer

Designs production systems for robot frames, electronics, actuators, sensors, batteries, wiring, assembly, testing, and calibration.

#182

Robotics Component Engineer

Develops motors, gears, bearings, sensors, processors, connectors, brakes, and other specialized robot components.

#183

Actuator Manufacturing Specialist

Produces and verifies electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, compliant, and novel actuators used to move robots.

#184

Robot Sensor Manufacturing Engineer

Develops production and calibration methods for cameras, lidar, force, tactile, inertial, proximity, and environmental sensors.

#185

Robotics Supply Chain Resilience Analyst

Maps critical parts, materials, suppliers, geographic concentration, substitution options, and recovery pathways.

#186

Robot Repairability Engineer

Designs modular access, diagnostics, replaceable components, service tools, parts support, and documentation for long robot life.

#187

Robot Remanufacturing Specialist

Restores used robots through inspection, repair, replacement, recalibration, software support, and recertification.

#188

Robotics Battery Lifecycle Specialist

Manages battery design, charging, health, replacement, second use, fire prevention, collection, and recycling.

#189

Robotics Material Circularity Engineer

Reduces virgin material use and improves disassembly, reuse, remanufacturing, and recovery of robot components.

#190

Robotics Product Lifecycle Manager

Coordinates requirements, design, sourcing, manufacturing, deployment, maintenance, updates, recovery, and retirement.

Robot Operations, Maintenance, Field Service, and Fleet Management

#191

Robotics Operations Manager

Coordinates deployment, scheduling, operators, safety, maintenance, data, facilities, vendors, and service outcomes across robotic systems.

#192

Robot Fleet Manager

Manages utilization, software, batteries, maintenance, performance, incidents, parts, and upgrades across many robots.

#193

Robotics Field Service Engineer

Travels to customer or mission sites to install, diagnose, repair, upgrade, and validate complex robotic systems.

#194

Robot Maintenance Technician

Performs inspection, cleaning, lubrication, replacement, calibration, testing, and repair of robotic equipment.

#195

Robotics Calibration Specialist

Ensures sensors, joints, tools, coordinate systems, force limits, and navigation remain accurate and traceable.

#196

Robot Software Update Manager

Coordinates secure testing, release, deployment, rollback, compatibility, and documentation of robot software changes.

#197

Robotics Spare Parts Coordinator

Maintains critical inventories, supplier relationships, repair options, substitutions, and emergency availability for robot fleets.

#198

Robot Remote Support Specialist

Diagnoses issues through logs, video, telemetry, operator guidance, and secure remote access without unnecessary travel.

#199

Robot Performance Analyst

Tracks productivity, quality, energy, downtime, safety, human impact, and mission outcomes to guide improvement.

#200

Robotics Decommissioning Specialist

Safely removes robots, credentials, data, batteries, hazardous materials, software dependencies, and organizational reliance.

Robotics Simulation, Digital Twins, Data, and Artificial Intelligence

#201

Robotics Simulation Engineer

Creates virtual environments, physics, sensors, robots, scenarios, and tests for development and training.

#202

Robot Digital Twin Engineer

Builds synchronized virtual models of robots, tools, environments, maintenance, and operations for planning and diagnosis.

#203

Synthetic Robotics Data Engineer

Generates simulated sensor data, rare events, environments, and labeled examples for training robotic models.

#204

Robotics Data Engineer

Builds pipelines for telemetry, sensor streams, maintenance, incidents, maps, tasks, and fleet performance.

#205

Robot Learning Engineer

Develops systems that learn motion, manipulation, navigation, adaptation, and decision-making from data and experience.

#206

Simulation-to-Reality Researcher

Studies how policies and models trained in simulation can transfer safely to physical robots.

#207

Robotics Reinforcement Learning Engineer

Builds systems that learn sequential physical behavior through reward, interaction, and constrained exploration.

#208

Robot Foundation Model Engineer

Develops large reusable models that connect language, vision, action, control, and physical knowledge across robot types.

#209

Robotics Dataset Curator

Collects, documents, balances, licenses, and maintains sensor, action, environment, failure, and human-interaction datasets.

#210

Physical Artificial Intelligence Evaluator

Tests whether learned systems can act safely and reliably under real-world variation, uncertainty, and human presence.

Education, Apprenticeships, Workforce Development, and Public Literacy

#211

Robotics Educator

Teaches mechanics, electronics, programming, controls, artificial intelligence, safety, ethics, and practical robot-building.

#212

Robotics Curriculum Designer

Creates coherent pathways from foundational science and trades to advanced robotics specializations.

#213

Robotics Apprenticeship Coordinator

Connects learners, employers, mentors, colleges, unions, projects, credentials, and paid practical experience.

#214

Robotics Laboratory Instructor

Supervises hands-on learning with robots, tools, testing, troubleshooting, safety, and team projects.

#215

Robotics Technician Instructor

Prepares learners for installation, calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, networking, and safe operation of robots.

#216

Robotics Safety Trainer

Teaches hazard recognition, safe zones, lockout, emergency stops, human-robot interaction, cybersecurity, and incident response.

#217

Community Robotics Learning Center Manager

Provides local access to robots, tools, instruction, repair, experimentation, competitions, and career pathways.

#218

Robotics Career Pathway Designer

Maps certificates, apprenticeships, associate degrees, university programs, transitions, and lifelong learning across robotics careers.

#219

Robotics Public Literacy Specialist

Helps communities understand robot capabilities, limitations, rights, risks, labor impacts, and governance choices.

#220

Human–Robot Partnership Coach

Helps workers and organizations learn how to collaborate with robots while preserving judgment, dignity, and meaningful responsibility.

Space Robotics, Planetary Systems, and Long-Term Exploration