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Welcome to the first installment of our "Robotics Zero to Hero" series. Before a robot can interact with the world, it needs to understand its own place within it. This fundamental understanding is rooted in the **Geometry of Motion**.
Welcome to Part 2 of our "Robotics Zero to Hero" series. In our last post, we discussed the mathematics of rigid body transformations. Now, we string those transformations together to form the "skeleton" of a robot. This is the study of **Kinematics**.
Welcome to Part 3 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." So far, we've learned how to map joint angles to an end-effector position using Forward Kinematics (FK). But in the real world, a robot is usually given a goal: *"Grab that cup at coordinates (X, Y, Z)."*
Welcome to Part 4 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." Kinematics (Parts 1-3) taught us about motion without considering the forces that cause it. But robots have mass, they move quickly, and they operate in gravity. To control them accurately, we must understand **Dynamics**.
Welcome to Part 5 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." We’ve covered Kinematics and Dynamics—the fundamental math and physics of how robots move. But moving from a perfectly simulated Python environment to physical hardware introduces a completely new set of challenges.
Welcome to Part 6 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." As we discussed in Part 5, real-world robots face complex, chaotic physics—especially our highly flexible, cable-driven octopus robot.
Welcome to Part 7 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." We can now model our robot's geometry, calculate its kinematics, and stabilize its complex dynamics. The next step is autonomy: getting the robot from Point A to Point B without crashing into a wall.
Welcome to Part 8 of "Robotics Zero to Hero." We've established an incredibly advanced software stack: kinematics, singularly perturbed dynamics, and diffusion-based AI planning. But software is useless without the hardware to run it.
Welcome to the grand finale of "Robotics Zero to Hero." We have traversed the foundational math, the physics of reality, cutting-edge AI planners, and specialized edge hardware.