Robotics Courses and Certifications

Considerations for Human-Robot Collaboration

Explore the future of human-robot collaboration, focusing on effective teamwork, contextual understanding, and the unique challenges of integrating robots into human-configured environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robot Skill Acquisition: Policy Representation and Data Generation

Explore solutions for scalable, reusable, and robot-complete data in robotics, addressing challenges and hidden costs to advance robot learning beyond current limitations.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards Trusted Human-Centric Robot Autonomy - Stanford Seminar

Exploring human-centric robot autonomy: balancing safety and fluency in interactions. Insights on data-driven safety concepts and legible robot behavior for prosocial human-robot engagement.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robot Learning in the Era of Large Pretrained Models - Stanford Seminar

Exploring interactive robot learning with large pretrained models, focusing on visual representations, data collection strategies, and leveraging language models for robotics applications.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Microcredential

Robotics

1 review

Comprehensive exploration of robotics, covering flight, movement, perception, and navigation. Includes real-world applications and culminates in programming robots for complex tasks.

• Coursera
• 30 weeks, 5 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Underactuated Robotics

3 reviews

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

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 28 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Underactuated Robotics - Spring 2009

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

• YouTube
• 1 day 4 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Building General Zero-Shot Robot Policies - How Large Models Changed Robotics

Explore how large AI models revolutionize robotics through Task and Motion Planning, examining PaLM-E, RT-2, and Aloha Unleashed for advanced robot decision-making and dexterity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

On Building General, Zero-Shot Robot Policies - EI Seminar

Explore the development of zero-shot robot policies for real-world tasks. Gain insights into Robot Utility Models (RUMs) and their ability to generalize to new environments without finetuning, achieving 90% success in novel settings.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How to Get Into Robotics

21 ratings at Coursera

Explore the dynamic world of robotics, its applications across industries, career opportunities, and ethical implications. Gain insights from industry experts and discover the skills needed for success in this rapidly advancing field.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control

Rigorous exploration of robot mechanics, motion, and control using modern screw theory. Gain hands-on experience through software development and simulation of industrial manipulators and mobile robots.

• Coursera
• 26 weeks, 6 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Modern Robotics, Course 1: Foundations of Robot Motion

965 ratings at Coursera

Explore robot configurations, degrees of freedom, and spatial representations. Learn fundamental concepts of robot motion, including C-space topology, velocities, and forces as twists and wrenches.

• Coursera
• 1 day 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Modern Robotics, Course 2: Robot Kinematics

288 ratings at Coursera

Learn to calculate robot configurations, velocities, and forces using advanced mathematical techniques. Master forward and inverse kinematics, velocity kinematics, statics, and closed-chain kinematics for robotic systems.

• Coursera
• 18 hours 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Modern Robotics, Course 3: Robot Dynamics

162 ratings at Coursera

Efficient numerical algorithms for robot dynamics, including forward and inverse dynamics, trajectory planning, and dynamic constraints. Builds on a robotics software library and uses V-REP simulator.

• Coursera
• 21 hours 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)