The article presents the results of the research of metacognitive regulation depending on the intellect and professional needs on the example of specialists of creative work with high intellectual load, engineers on robotics. It is established that the peculiarities of the style of conscious self-regulation, as a reflection of metacognitive regulation, are associated with intellect, professional needs. The higher the conscious regulation with respect to modeling, the adequacy of ideas about the internal and external conditions of the situation, the evaluation of the results of activities, the more reliable are the relations engineers on robotics with internal and external colleagues and intellect. To development metacognitive regulation as a resource that increases the intellectual activity engineers on robotics, it is necessary to establish a correspondence between the complexity of the psyche and the complexity of the tasks being solved.