MIT Press open-sources 'Introduction to Autonomous Robots' textbook covering kinematics to neural networks
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-08-20
MIT Press has released 'Introduction to Autonomous Robots' as a free open-source project on GitHub. Written for undergraduates, it covers kinematics, sensors, actuators, motion planning, localization, computer vision, and neural networks, building from the ground up. Authored by four professors from the University of Colorado Boulder, it is available under a Creative Commons license with a free PDF.
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