Mastering robots in the company of professors doesn’t require a classroom. Or even pants. EdX, a remote-learning site run by Harvard and MIT, offers dozens of free online courses, including one called Autonomous Mobile Robots. We audited a class to see what it entailed. Here’s how you, too, might pick up the skills to program bots that can navigate and map a room.
Lectures: Instructors from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich walked us through key concepts in a series of web videos, including robotic locomotion and obstacle detection.
Homework: After each lecture, the instructors assigned a problem set covering the material and encouraged any overachievers to try additional exercises.
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