Re: What do you call a person who makes and designs robots?

The best place to look, for a start, is the following web page:

Robotics FAQs

Some of those working on robots might refer to themselves as roboticists.  
Others would describe themselves as being of whatever discipline they belong to, 
and there a great many disciplines involved in the development of robotics.  
Some of the disciplines are electrical, mechanical, and computer engineers, and 
computer scientists.

Some of the terms you might want to try in searching the web are the following:

   robotics
   robots
   artificial_intelligence

Thanks for your question.

sid