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This article shares a comprehensive GitHub repository called 'Awesome Robotics' that curates essential courses, books, software, conferences, and competitions for learning and advancing in robotics.

Robotics is awesome! So if robotics is awesome, you need awesome resources. This repo with over 6k is even named 'awesome'. Coincidence? I don't think so! Awesome Robotics is a curated collection of robotics courses, books, software, papers, conferences, and resources. Basically, it's organized into practical categories that cover the entire robotics learning path: → Courses: Udacity's AI for Robotics, MIT's Underactuated Robotics, Stanford's Introduction to Robotics, edX's Autonomous Navigation, Coursera's Modern Robotics specialization, and UC Berkeley's Advanced Robotics. → Books: Probabilistic Robotics, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, Planning Algorithms (free), Introduction to Modern Robotics (free PDF), Programming Robots with ROS, and Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI. → Software & Libraries: ROS, ROS2, Gazebo, Drake, V-REP, Webots, MRPT, Robotics Library, YARP, Unity Robotics Hub, and OpenAI's Roboschool. → Conferences: ICRA, IROS, RSS, Humanoids, ISRR, ISER, and major journals like The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and Journal of Field Robotics. → Competitions: DARPA Robotics Challenge, RoboCup, ICRA Robot Challenges, First Robotics Competition, RoboMasters, and Eurobot. What makes this valuable is the quality curation. Each category has the essential resources, not every possible link. The 32 contributors have filtered for what's actually useful for learning and building robots. It's MIT licensed, actively maintained, and points to related awesome lists for AI, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. If you're starting in robotics or looking to fill knowledge gaps, this is the bookmark you need. It's the map of what to learn, where to learn it, and what tools to use. As a 'thank you', you can ping me when you are building something cool in robotics or physical AI space ;) Here it is: https://github.com/kiloreux/awesome-robotics… ~~ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → http://ziegler.substack.com
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Robotics is awesome!

So if robotics is awesome, you need awesome resources.

This repo with over 6k is even named ‘awesome’.

Coincidence? I don’t think so!

Awesome Robotics is a curated collection of robotics courses, books, software, papers, conferences, and resources.

Basically, it’s organized into practical categories that cover the entire robotics learning path:

→ Courses: Udacity’s AI for Robotics, MIT’s Underactuated Robotics, Stanford’s Introduction to Robotics, edX’s Autonomous Navigation, Coursera’s Modern Robotics specialization, and UC Berkeley’s Advanced Robotics.

→ Books: Probabilistic Robotics, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, Planning Algorithms (free), Introduction to Modern Robotics (free PDF), Programming Robots with ROS, and Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI.

→ Software & Libraries: ROS, ROS2, Gazebo, Drake, V-REP, Webots, MRPT, Robotics Library, YARP, Unity Robotics Hub, and OpenAI’s Roboschool.

→ Conferences: ICRA, IROS, RSS, Humanoids, ISRR, ISER, and major journals like The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and Journal of Field Robotics.

→ Competitions: DARPA Robotics Challenge, RoboCup, ICRA Robot Challenges, First Robotics Competition, RoboMasters, and Eurobot.

What makes this valuable is the quality curation. Each category has the essential resources, not every possible link. The 32 contributors have filtered for what’s actually useful for learning and building robots.

It’s MIT licensed, actively maintained, and points to related awesome lists for AI, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.

If you’re starting in robotics or looking to fill knowledge gaps, this is the bookmark you need.

It’s the map of what to learn, where to learn it, and what tools to use.

As a ‘thank you’, you can ping me when you are building something cool in robotics or physical AI space ;)

Here it is: https://github.com/kiloreux/awesome-robotics…

~~

Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → http://ziegler.substack.com

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Awesome Robotics

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This is a list of various books, courses and other resources for robotics. It’s an attempt to gather useful material in one place for everybody who wants to learn more about the field.

Courses

Books

Software and Libraries

Gazebo Robot Simulator

ROS The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms.

ROS2 ROS2 is a new version of ROS with radical design changes and improvement over older ROS version.

RobWork RobWork is a collection of C++ libraries for simulation and control of robot systems. RobWork is used for research and education as well as for practical robot applications.

MRPT Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit provides developers with portable and well-tested applications and libraries covering data structures and algorithms employed in common robotics research areas.

Robotics Library The Robotics Library (RL) is a self-contained C++ library for robot kinematics, motion planning and control. It covers mathematics, kinematics and dynamics, hardware abstraction, motion planning, collision detection, and visualization.

Simbad 2D/3D simulator in Java and Jython.

Morse General purpose indoor/outdoor 3D simulator.

Carmen CARMEN is an open-source collection of software for mobile robot control. CARMEN is modular software designed to provide basic navigation primitives including: base and sensor control, logging, obstacle avoidance, localization, path planning, and mapping.

Peekabot Peekabot is a real-time, networked 3D visualization tool for robotics, written in C++. Its purpose is to simplify the visualization needs faced by a roboticist daily.

YARP Yet Another Robot Platform.

V-REP Robot simulator, 3D, source available, Lua scripting, APIs for C/C++, Python, Java, Matlab, URBI, 2 physics engines, full kinematic solver.

Webots Webots is a development environment used to model, program and simulate mobile robots.

Drake A planning, control and analysis toolbox for nonlinear dynamical systems.

Neurorobotics Platform (NRP) An Internet-accessible simulation system that allows the simulation of robots controlled by spiking neural networks.

The Player Project Free Software tools for robot and sensor applications

Open AI’s Roboschool Open-source software for robot simulation, integrated with OpenAI Gym.

ViSP Open-source visual servoing platform library, is able to compute control laws that can be applied to robotic systems.

ROS Behavior Trees Open-source library to create robot’s behaviors in form of Behavior Trees running in ROS (Robot Operating System).

g2core Open-source motion control software for CNC and Robotics, designed to run on Arduino Due class microcontrollers.

ur5controller Open-source OpenRAVE controller for UR5 robot integrated with ROS.

RBDL Open-source (zlib) C++ libray for both forward and inverse dynamics and kinematics. Also supports contacts and loops.

Unity Robotics Hub Central repository for open-source Unity packages, tutorials, and other resources demonstrating how to use Unity for robotics simulations. Includes new support for ROS integration.

Papers

Conferences

Journals

Competitions

Companies

  • Boston Dynamics robotics R&D company, creator of the state of the art Atlas and Spot robots
  • iRobot manufacturer of the famous Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner
  • PAL Robotics
  • Aldebaran Robotics creator of the NAO robot
  • ABB Robotics the largest manufacturer of industrial robots
  • KUKA Robotics major manufacturer of industrial robots targeted at factory automation
  • FANUC industrial robots manufacturer with the biggest install base
  • Rethink Robotics creator of the collaborative robot Baxter
  • DJI industry leader in drones for both commerical and industrial needs.
  • The construct sim A cloud based tool for building modern, future-proof robot simulations.
  • Fetch Robotics A robotics startup in San Jose, CA building the future of e-commerce fulfillment and R&D robots.
  • Festo Robotics Festo is known for making moving robots that move like animals such as the sea gull like SmartBird, jellyfish, butterflies and kangaroos.
  • Neobotix manufacturer of industrial, research and as well as custom mobile robots.

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