Topic hubs
Each hub gives you the lie of the land, a learning path through the relevant lessons, reference tables, and the latest news and papers on that subject.
Robotics foundations
What a robot is, the sense-plan-act loop, DoF, workspace and robot types
02Spatial maths
Rotations, quaternions, transforms, frame conventions and Lie groups
03Kinematics
Forward and inverse kinematics, DH and PoE, Jacobians, singularities
04Dynamics
Equations of motion, Newton-Euler, Lagrange, identification, contact
05Control
PID, state space, LQR, MPC, impedance, force and whole-body control
06Actuators and drives
Motors, gearboxes, quasi-direct drive, encoders, drivers, fluid power
07Sensors
IMUs, encoders, force/torque, cameras, depth, lidar, radar, touch, calibration
08State estimation
Bayes filters, Kalman, EKF, UKF, particle filters, fusion, factor graphs
09SLAM and mapping
Visual and lidar SLAM, occupancy grids, loop closure, localisation in a map
10Robot perception
Detection, 6D pose, point clouds, segmentation and 3D reconstruction
11Motion planning
Grid search, sampling planners, trajectory optimisation and timing
12Manipulation and grasping
Grasp analysis, learned grasp planning, pick and place, contact and hands
13Mobile robots
Wheeled kinematics, navigation stacks, warehouse AMRs and fleet management
14Legged and humanoid robots
Gaits, ZMP and capture point, centroidal MPC, learned locomotion, humanoids
15Aerial and field robots
Multirotor dynamics, PX4 and ArduPilot, marine, farm, space and inspection
16ROS 2 and middleware
Nodes, topics, services, actions, tf2, DDS and QoS, ros2_control, distributions
17Simulation and digital twins
Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Webots, Drake and the sim-to-real gap
18Robot learning
Imitation learning, RL for control, vision-language-action models, datasets
19Safety and standards
ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, risk and security
20Careers and industry
Roles, skills, interviews, portfolios and how the robotics market is split