crazy how the fate of the free world is being steered by terminally online schizoids at home in their pj's high on drugs and so deep into an AI psychosis rabbit hole thinking they are communing with a machine god that they actually become a national security risk
Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.
MIT Press published a robotics textbook.
Then put it on GitHub for FREE. 📌
"Introduction to Autonomous Robots" covers everything:
kinematics, sensors, actuators, motion planning, localization, computer vision, and neural networks... from mechanisms all the way to algorithms.
It's written for undergraduates. Which means it's actually readable.
Most robotics textbooks assume you're already deep in the field. This one builds everything from the ground up, step by step, with real examples. Stanford's Mac Schwager called it "much-needed" (because it genuinely is).
Four professors at the University of Colorado Boulder spent years building it from lecture notes. MIT Press published it. Then they open-sourced the whole thing under Creative Commons.
PDF. Free. GitHub.
If you're trying to understand how autonomous robots actually work (not just the frontier research, but the foundations), this is where to start.
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