Montreal Robotics Courses

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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Learning Structured World Models From and For Physical Interactions

Explore structured world models for physical interactions in robotics. Learn novel representations and structural priors for effective model-based planning and complex manipulation tasks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards High-Fidelity Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

Explore open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding using Transformer-based networks and foundation models. Learn about object segmentation, human body part segmentation, and vectorized floorplan reconstruction.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Learning In-the-Wild Sensor Simulation for Autonomous Driving

Explore cutting-edge sensor simulation techniques for autonomous driving. Learn to create digital twins, manipulate scenarios, and generate realistic multi-sensor simulations to enhance self-driving vehicle development.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Sim2Robot - Training Robots for the Real-World with Imperfect Simulators

Explore innovative methods for training robots using imperfect simulators, focusing on navigation and pick-and-place tasks. Learn about leveraging large-scale learning, hierarchical control, and foundation models for real-world deployment.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

RoboCat - A Self-Improving Generalist for Robotic Manipulation

Explore RoboCat, a multi-embodiment, multi-task generalist agent for robotic manipulation. Learn about its ability to generalize across tasks and robots, and its potential for autonomous improvement.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robots Learning Like Humans: Leveraging Human-Inspired Techniques in Machine Learning

Explore how robots can learn from human-like methods, including video observation, natural language instructions, and curiosity-driven exploration.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data-Driven Fine Manipulation: Pushing Boundaries in Robotic Precision

Explore data-driven solutions for fine robotic manipulation, enabling low-cost hardware to perform intricate tasks with superhuman precision using imitation and reinforcement learning techniques.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Explore vision-language-action models for robotic control, enhancing generalization and semantic reasoning through Internet-scale data integration and end-to-end training.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A General-Purpose Robotic Navigation Model

Explore advancements in general-purpose robotic navigation models, including data sharing across robots, generalization capabilities, and applications like kilometer-scale navigation and open-vocabulary instruction following.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Multi-Time Scale World Models

Explore multi-time scale world models for intelligent agents, focusing on probabilistic formalism, computational aspects, and action-conditional future predictions in complex environments.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video