Montreal Robotics Courses

Swarm Robotics Across Scales: A Path for Practical Robot Swarms

Explore swarm robotics challenges and solutions for practical applications, from smart materials to space exploration, with insights on heterogeneous swarms and mission-oriented design.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

See to Act, Act to See - The Interdependence of Planning and Perception in Robotics

Explore the interdependence of planning and perception in robotics, focusing on physical property learning, multi-modal sensing, and uncertainty modeling for improved task performance.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Soft Robots Learn to Crawl

Explore soft robot design and control optimization using finite element simulation and reinforcement learning. Learn how to create efficient, high-performing soft crawling robots that transfer from simulation to reality.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Engineering AI Systems and AI for Engineering: Compositionality and Physics in Learning

Explore compositional AI system design and physics-integrated learning algorithms for robotics and autonomy. Discover methodologies for reliable deployment and rapid hardware control implementation.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Becoming Bionic: Advancements in Smart Prosthetic Limbs

Explore cutting-edge research in prosthetics and smart limb control. Discover open problems and current solutions in neuroprosthetics, reinforcement learning, and human-robot interaction for improved functionality and usability.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Foundational Models for Robot Control

Explore recent advancements in using large pretrained networks for robot control, from basic concepts to practical applications in robotics research.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Efficient Action Representation for Robot Learning

Explore efficient action representation techniques for enhancing robot learning, focusing on helpful abstractions and theoretical aspects of reinforcement learning.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Practical Reinforcement Learning with Robots

Explore practical reinforcement learning for robotics, covering environment design in simulation and real-world applications, with insights on implementing RL in robotic systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building General-Purpose Home Robots

Explore advancements in general-purpose home robots, including vision-language models, rapid skill learning, and multi-fingered dexterity. Discover challenges and solutions for creating adaptable, cost-effective domestic assistants.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Robotic Dexterous Manipulation - Advances in Learning and Teleoperation

Explore advancements in robotic manipulation, combining classical and learned methods. Discover projects on extrinsic contact learning, visuo-tactile SLAM, and in-hand object rotation using vision and touch.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Adaptable Generalist Robots

Explore cutting-edge approaches for building adaptable generalist robots, focusing on in-context learning, unsupervised reinforcement learning, and leveraging foundation models for improved generalization and task versatility.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Large Behavior Models: Versatile and Dexterous Robots via Supervised Learning

Explore advancements in machine learning for robotics, focusing on creating versatile and dexterous robots through supervised learning and the development of Large Behavior Models.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning Abstractions from Humans for Generalizable Robot Learning

Explore methods for integrating human knowledge into robot learning abstractions, focusing on feedback as a prior, personalized interface, and framework for user-aligned reward functions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Visual Whole-Body Manipulation and Locomotion for Legged Robots

Explore visual feedback integration for precise legged robot coordination in challenging terrains and manipulation tasks, focusing on dynamic, scalable skills for real-world applications.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Robotics as an Enabler and Inhibitor of Sustainable Development Goals

Explore robotics' dual role in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals. Analyze potential to enable 46% of targets while inhibiting 19%, focusing on economic, social, and environmental impacts.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video