Robotics

Free university and other expert courses and lectures on robotics. The lectures could be general robotics in nature, or fall into the fields of engineering, biology, genetics, computer science, artificial intelligence and other related areas.

andrew ng

The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, is improving lives by building robots which can assist us, maybe even one day clean our houses for us. Check out Ng’s fascinating research.

Intro to Robotics Stanford Oussama Khatib

16-Lecture Course: Introduction to Robotics (CS223A)

Intro to modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. Topics include: kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, trajectory generation, programming and design. An understanding of matrix algebra is useful to watching this course.

Juan Enriquez Tech Revolution TED

Tech Evolution Can Overcome Financial Crises

We can’t keep feeding falling businesses with stimulus money, but instead we need to look to the future and focus on tech startups in biology, robotics and other “Singularity” technologies. These technologies, he says, hold the keys to the next evolution of our species: the Homo Evolutis.

Dan Barry

Robots in the Next Ten Years

Will robots ever become self-aware, conscious? Barry doesn’t know for sure, but hopes that consciousness is an emergent property, because as such, they will be.

Paul Cohen

Next: Really Smart Computers

Computers today are smart…at performing specific tasks. They still cannot match the adaptive and flexible mind of a human being, not even that of an infant. Faster computers alone will not get us there. Artificial Intelligence is required.

Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Flocks and Fleets: Collective Motion in Nature and Robotics

Naomi Ehrich Leonard of Princeton University provides an introduction to the study of collective motion in nature and robotics: how individuals can create complex motion, why this is interesting to robotics, and how mathematical models can help formulate theories that can be applied to robotics.