Autonomy Courses and Certifications

Towards Generalizable Autonomy - Duality of Discovery & Bias

Explores how inductive biases and structured learning can help robots generalize across tasks and skills.

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

Interactive Autonomy - A Human-Centered Approach for Safe Interactions

Learn how autonomous robots can influence human behavior and use learned human preferences to make interactions safer and more reliable.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Trusted Human-Centric Robot Autonomy - Stanford Seminar

Exploring human-centric robot autonomy: balancing safety and fluency in interactions. Insights on data-driven safety concepts and legible robot behavior for prosocial human-robot engagement.

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

Human-Machine Communication: Applications and Future

Study machines as communication agents across contexts from child–robot empathy to religious practice and space operations, while examining their ethical and cultural implications.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

GOTO Conferences

How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify's Most Loved Features From Being Killed

How Spotify’s autonomous teams and outcome-focused Agile practices helped Discover Weekly survive skepticism and become a flagship feature.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GDC

The Freedom Fallacy - Understanding Player Autonomy in Game Design

A GDC session on player autonomy, helping game developers satisfy players while avoiding design choices that undermine meaningful freedom.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify's Most Loved Features From Being Killed

Discover how Spotify's autonomous team culture fostered innovation, enabling the creation of Discover Weekly despite initial skepticism. Learn about aligned autonomy, data-driven decisions, and iterative development.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Autonomy, Is That What We Really Want?

Exploring the balance between individual autonomy and team connectivity in IT, from code to organizational collaboration, using polarity management to optimize benefits.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Bolei Zhou

Toward Generalizable Embodied AI for Machine Autonomy

Explore how diverse environments, real-world driving data, and human feedback can improve embodied AI generalization and safety.

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

Bolei Zhou

Human-Centric AI for Computer Vision and Machine Autonomy - ICCV'21 Tutorial

A tutorial on human-centric AI for explainable computer vision, controllable image generation, and more generalizable machine autonomy.

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

Driving Application Security and Developer Autonomy in Internal Developer Portals

Explore strategies to enhance application security and empower developers through an internal developer portal, fostering autonomy and efficiency in cloud-native environments.

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

VinAI

Compositional Learning for Robot Autonomy via Modularity and Abstraction

Explore compositional learning for robot autonomy through modularity and abstraction. Discover neuro-symbolic planners for long-horizon manipulation tasks and state-action abstractions from raw signals.

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

VinAI

Building Blocks of Generalizable Autonomy

Explore key aspects of generalizable autonomy in robotics, including representational biases, causal inference, and interactive policy learning under uncertainty for efficient and adaptable AI systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Platform Engineering

Tenant Autonomy and Isolation in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters - A Comprehensive Guide

Learn to set up secure multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, balancing isolation and autonomy for efficient, cost-effective management of multiple tenants.

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

Platform Engineering

Observability and Platform Mindset: Fostering Developer Autonomy

Empower developers to tackle Kubernetes production challenges autonomously. Learn strategies from industry leaders for streamlined issue resolution and enhanced observability.

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