How to Learn Robotics

About this English edition

This is the English edition of a handbook originally written in Chinese. It was translated with the help of an AI assistant (Claude) and reviewed by the author. Where a passage reads oddly, the Chinese original is the source of truth — and corrections via pull request are very welcome.

This handbook is for people who are not classically trained in robotics. It maps out a path for teaching yourself the field — from the prerequisites, through the fundamentals and the more advanced material, all the way to embodied AI — with a round of hands-on practice at every stage.

By qqfly.

Start with the Preface and read in the order below, or use the navigation on the left.

Contents

1. Preface
2. Prerequisites
3. Getting started — Introduction to Robotics · Get Your Hands Dirty
4. Advanced — Overview · Modern Robotics · 3D Vision · Autonomous Planning · Advanced Practice
5. Embodied AI (work in progress)
6. Dragon Quest
7. References · License

The Chinese original

The project is written and maintained in Chinese at learn-robotics.qqfly.net. That version is the source of truth, and it is usually a few steps ahead of this translation.

Contributing and feedback

This handbook was put together in a short stretch of time, so it surely has gaps and rough edges. That is part of why it lives on GitHub as an open-source project: edit anything and open a pull request, or file an issue if something looks wrong. You can also reach me at qrobotics [at] yeah [dot] net.

License

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. See the License page for details.