Stanford releases free 16-lecture robotics course by Oussama Khatib, from kinematics to control
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-09-08
Stanford University has made available a free 16-lecture robotics course taught by Oussama Khatib, one of the field's founding legends and head of the Stanford Robotics Center.
The course is grounded in the actual mathematics robots need to move safely and work alongside humans, covering:
- Spatial transformations
- Forward & inverse kinematics
- Jacobians, velocity propagation, and singularities
- Trajectory generation
- Motion planning
- Newton-Euler and Lagrangian dynamics/control methods
Khatib pioneered human-centered robotics when the field was still focused on industrial cages and safety barriers; his work on haptic feedback and dynamic control made it possible for robots to work safely beside people.
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