Program Overview
The Certificate in AI for Robotics bridges the gap between AI algorithms and physical systems. Students get hands-on experience with real robots in Meridian AI's Threshold Robotics Lab, learning manipulation, locomotion, navigation, and sensor fusion. The program emphasizes the unique challenges of deploying AI in the physical world: uncertainty, latency, safety, and the sim-to-real gap.
Curriculum Highlights
- Robotics Foundations: Kinematics, dynamics, coordinate frames, ROS2
- Perception: Sensor fusion (LiDAR, radar, stereo vision, IMU), SLAM, 3D scene understanding
- Manipulation: Grasp planning, motion planning (MoveIt2), imitation learning, diffusion policies
- Locomotion: Legged robots, sim-to-real with Isaac Lab, whole-body control
- World Models: Learning predictive models for robot planning
Sample Courses
- ROB-101: Robotics Foundations and ROS2
- ROB-201: Robot Perception and Sensor Fusion
- ROB-210: Manipulation and Grasp Planning
- ROB-220: Legged Locomotion and Physical AI
- ROB-290: Capstone: End-to-End Robot Task