Robotics Courses

Building a Future with Robots

67 reviews

Explore the role of robots and autonomous systems in the factories, homes, hospitals, schools and cars of our near future.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

24 reviews

Learn how to program all the major systems of a robotic car. Topics include planning, search, localization, tracking, and control.

• Udacity
• 8 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Robotics: Aerial Robotics

10 reviews

How can we create agile micro aerial vehicles that are able to operate autonomously in cluttered indoor and outdoor environments? You will gain an introduction to the mechanics of flight and the design of quadrotor flying robots and will be able to deve…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Robotics

3 reviews

Introduction to Robotics (CS223A) covers topics such as Spatial Descriptions, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Jacobians, Dynamics, Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation, Position and Force Control, and Manipulator Design.

• YouTube
• 19 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - The Next Generation of Robot Learning

3 reviews

In this talk, Chelsea Finn will discuss the challenges that face robots, in contrast to standard machine learning problem settings, and how we can rethink both our robot learning algorithms and our data sources in a way that enables robots to generalize…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Robotics: Computational Motion Planning

1007 ratings at Coursera

Robotic systems typically include three components: a mechanism which is capable of exerting forces and torques on the environment, a perception system for sensing the world and a decision and control system which modulates the robot's behavior to achiev…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Robotics: Perception

636 ratings at Coursera

How can robots perceive the world and their own movements so that they accomplish navigation and manipulation tasks? In this module, we will study how images and videos acquired by cameras mounted on robots are transformed into representations like feat…

• Coursera
• 33 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Seminar - Micro but Mighty: Microbots in an Macro World

The goal of this work is to build microrobots that are inspired by ants to apply forces that are large enough to appreciably affect the human scale world. We want to build microrobots that can not only explore a disaster site in a search and rescue missi…

• YouTube
• 1-2 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Considerations for Collaborative Robotics, Monroe Kennedy III

Syllabus: Introduction. Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Laboratory ARM. Evolution Towards Collaborative Robotics. What Does Effective Human-Robot Collaboration Look Like. Open Questions?. Robot-Robot Collaboration. Coordination in Humans and in…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Computational Design of Compliant, Dynamical Robots, Cynthia Sung

Syllabus: Introduction. Computational Robot Design. Topology Optimization. Hybrid Aerial Vehicles. Hybrid Aerial Vehicle: System Overview. Soft Arm Optimization. Physical Validation. Design Composition. Tuning Mechanics via Geometry. Hopping on…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Robotics: Mobility

586 ratings at Coursera

How can robots use their motors and sensors to move around in an unstructured environment? You will understand how to design robot bodies and behaviors that recruit limbs and more general appendages to apply physical forces that confer reliable mobility…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Robotics: Estimation and Learning

494 ratings at Coursera

How can robots determine their state and properties of the surrounding environment from noisy sensor measurements in time? In this module you will learn how to get robots to incorporate uncertainty into estimating and learning from a dynamic and changin…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Underactuated Robotics (Spring 2009)

2 reviews

This course discusses nonlinear dynamics and control of underactuated mechanical systems, with an emphasis on machine learning methods.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 28 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

MIT 16.412J Cognitive Robotics, Spring 2016

1 review

This is an advanced lecture series from MIT 16.412 Cognitive Robotics of Spring 2016, led by MIT students.

• YouTube
• 8 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

CS 8802, Artificial Intelligence for Robotics: Programming a Robotic Car

2 reviews

Learn how to program all the major systems of a robotic car from the leader of Google and Stanford's autonomous driving teams. This class will teach you basic methods in Artificial Intelligence, including: probabilistic inference, planning and search, lo…

• Udacity
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course