English Courses

Stanford Seminar - TechFail: From Intersectional Inaccessibility to Inclusive Design

Using gaming as a lens on technology, this talk traces intersectional barriers to access and explores how inclusive design can broaden participation.

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

Stanford Seminar - On and Out-of-Body Interactions & Experiences

Explores how interaction can move between wearable devices on the body and robots or drones operating nearby.

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

Robots in Dynamic Tasks - Learning, Risk, and Safety

See how robots learn to control and navigate when their dynamics, surroundings, and disturbances are uncertain.

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

Designing the Interactive Paper

Explore interactive research papers that reveal definitions, explain mathematical notation, and clarify dense passages as readers need them.

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

Stanford Seminar - Towards Shape Changing Displays and Shape Changing Robots

Shape-changing systems use touch and motion to make information interactive and help robots adapt to tasks and environments.

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

Incorporating Sample Efficient Monitoring into Learned Autonomy

Sample-efficient warning systems flag unsafe situations and distribution shifts in learned robotic systems with statistical guarantees.

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

Why Would We Want a Multi-Agent System Unstable

Examines why destabilizing multi-agent feedback can prevent gridlock, comparing control-barrier collision-avoidance policies through stability analysis and robot simulations.

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

Humanizing Robot Design - Aaron Edsinger of Hello Robot

A human-centered approach to collaborative robots, from safe actuation and assistive mobile manipulators to Stretch control by a person with quadriplegia.

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

Stanford Lecture - Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022)

Explore three algorithms that connect paired binary trees, Baxter permutations, and rectangular floorplans.

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

Understanding the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Telerobotic Devices

A research seminar on how haptic feedback affects control, cognitive load, and training in prosthetic limbs, robotic surgery, and remote manipulation.

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

Stanford Seminar - Democratizing Robot Learning

Research on how robots learn from imperfect human decision makers and become useful autonomous teammates.

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

From Product Management to Venture Capital - A Conversation with Ashmeet Sidana

Explore how product management skills can transfer to venture capital and how product managers can prepare for a career transition.

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

Highly Optimized Quantum Circuits Synthesized via Data-Flow Engines

An adaptive compression method synthesizes shorter quantum gate circuits from unitary operations while preserving near-unity fidelity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Get in Touch: Tactile Perception for Human-Robot Systems

Explores how tactile sensing lets robots interpret touch during grasping and manipulation, from sensor designs to perception of direction and object interaction.

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

The Digital Future of Health

How digital technologies are changing care across practice areas, including their effects on access and healthcare business models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video