Robotics Courses and Certifications

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Collaborative Robot Safety: Design & Deployment

260 ratings at Coursera

Learn to assess and enhance safety in collaborative robot workcells, covering industry standards, risk assessments, accident prevention, and design techniques for reducing collision forces.

• Coursera
• 16 hours 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Basic Robotic Behaviors and Odometry

61 ratings at Coursera

Explore autonomous mobile robots through hands-on exercises in Webots simulator. Learn reactive behaviors, state machines, and forward kinematics for non-holonomic systems, emphasizing the physical system's impact on algorithm design.

• Coursera
• 1 day 4 hours 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Robotic Path Planning and Task Execution

18 ratings at Coursera

Learn path planning algorithms, collision checking, behavior trees, and basic manipulation for robotics. Implement a complete mobile manipulation solution in the final project using Webots simulator.

• Coursera
• 1 day 19 hours 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Robotic Mapping and Trajectory Generation

14 ratings at Coursera

Explore advanced robotics concepts including inverse kinematics, sensor processing, mapping techniques, and trajectory generation. Gain practical skills in modeling and controlling uncertainty in robotic systems.

• Coursera
• 1 day 2 hours 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Building Robots: Electrical Drives

Learn the fundamentals of electrical drives, including hardware and control systems, and how to implement and control a DC drive in robotic applications.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Robots: Communication Protocols and Hardware

Learn to design, implement, and troubleshoot communication systems for robotics.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Robots: Sensors and Data Acquisition

Learn to design and develop sensor systems and data acquisition applications for embedded robotic systems.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Robots: System Integration

Learn how to integrate components and modules from diverse engineering disciplines into cohesive and functional robotic systems.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Thymio robot as a tool for discovering digital science

This MOOC teaches basic understanding of robots’ mechanisms and Thymio’s programming languages, classroom use and pedagogical elements.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Robot Development

5 ratings at edX

This course offers in-depth learning of developmental cognitive robotics, taking direct inspiration from child psychologyused to develop sensorimotor and cognitive skills in robots.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 8-10 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Future Robots

Learn Robots as a new science for the understanding of human beings and the affects of robotics in the real world.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 6-8 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

ROS for Beginners II: Localization, Navigation and SLAM

1601 ratings at Udemy

A practical approach to learn the foundation of mobile robots SLAM and Navigation with ROS

• Udemy
• 4 hours 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Autonomous Mobile Robots

11 ratings at edX

Basic concepts and algorithms for locomotion, perception, and intelligent navigation.

• edX
• 15 weeks, 4-8 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

Making the Case for Robotic Process Automation

95 ratings at Coursera

Explore how Robotic Process Automation can transform accounting and finance, increase efficiency, and enable professionals to focus on critical thinking. Learn to identify potential uses and build a compelling business case.

• Coursera
• 5 hours 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems - Part I

Vehicles, bicycles, cranes, human body and robots are multibody systems. Learn how to model them and compute their kinematic and dynamic characteristics, such as velocities, accelerations and forces.

• edX
• 14 weeks, 10-11 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)