Learning and Certification

Free guides for electronics, motors and sensors commonly used in beginner robots.

Thousands of community Arduino projects with full build steps and code.

Free short coding lessons, a common first step before moving into robot programming.

Interactive Python basics, the main language used in robot software.

Free to audit hands on course on embedded hardware basics used in robot controllers.

Official game manuals, technical guides and curriculum for all FIRST robotics programs.

Free course on vectors and matrices, core maths used in robot kinematics.

Free physics lessons covering forces and motion, the maths base every robot builder needs.

Ready made lesson plans for building and coding LEGO SPIKE Prime robots.

Classroom robotics lessons and project ideas for LEGO MINDSTORMS and SPIKE robots.

Scratch based coding platform built for programming mBot and other beginner robots.

Free micro:bit projects covering sensors, motors and physical computing basics.

Free plain language explanation of PID control, the core algorithm behind most robot motion.

Official free documentation for setting up and programming Raspberry Pi boards used in robots.

Free guided projects for coding, electronics and simple robots on Raspberry Pi.

Free entry point to the full ROS documentation set for absolute beginners.

Official step by step lessons to learn ROS 2, the standard robot software framework.

Classic beginner tutorials for the original ROS 1 framework, still widely used.

Block based coding from MIT, often used to program first simple robots.

Free tutorials on electronics, sensors and microcontrollers for building robots.

Browser based simulator to build and test circuits and simple microcontroller logic.

Free structured curriculum for VEX IQ, EXP and V5 competitive robotics teams.

Free wiki documentation for popular low cost robot kits and sensor modules.

Free course and badge on Internet of Things basics, relevant to connected robots.

Free coding certifications in Python and machine learning useful for robot software.

Entry level Google certificates useful for founders building robotics adjacent data skills.

Professional automation and control systems certifications from the ISA.

NVIDIA's certification hub listing paid instructor-led and some free courses leading to AI certificates.

NVIDIA Jetson AI Lab hub with free tutorials for building generative AI and robotics projects on Jetson.

Training modules for using ROS in industrial manufacturing settings.

Introductory information and paid training paths for functional safety in robotic systems.

Free official e-learning and completion certificates for programming collaborative robots.

Official documentation and learning guide for the ArduPilot autopilot firmware.

A curated list of robotics books, courses, software and datasets on GitHub.

Curated list of robotics simulators and software libraries across many categories.

Full documentation for the WidowX and ViperX robot arm families used a lot in robot learning labs.

Main open source library for training and running robot AI models, with ready to use datasets and policies.

Free official design articles explaining how and why ROS 2 works the way it does.

Official learning path for building and programming drones with the PX4 autopilot.

Community curated list of free robotics coursework and learning paths.

Official step by step manual for setting up and programming the TurtleBot3 platform.

Free short book explaining ROS concepts in plain language for newcomers.

Free open textbook and code covering the basics of building autonomous robots.

Free interactive deep learning textbook with runnable code, used widely in robot learning.

Widely used free PDF textbook on mobile robot locomotion, sensing and navigation.

Free interactive Jupyter book teaching state estimation used in robot localization.

Free textbook covering linear algebra, calculus and probability behind machine learning and robotics.

Free full text by Lynch and Park covering the maths and control behind robot arms.

Free complete textbook covering motion planning algorithms used across robotics.

Info page and free sample chapters for the classic Thrun, Burgard and Fox textbook on SLAM.