Machine Learning for Robotics (First Early Release)

Machine learning is the present and future of robotics, whether it's for self-driving vehicles, consumer robotics, or industrial manufacturing. Driven by breakthroughs in research and compute infrastructure, widespread deployment of huge neural nets, and end-to-end robotics tasks, the science and practice of robotics is in the midst of disruption from data-driven approaches such as deep learning and foundation models.

If you're a software or machine learning engineer looking to get into robotics, or a robotics engineer planning to deploy machine learning in your projects, this is your book.

You'll learn how to apply deep learning methods to robotics and approach core robotics technologies—perception, reasoning, and prediction—from a deep learning perspective. This guide explores state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms relevant to each core technology and shows you how to use them for real-world robotics. Relevant code samples demonstrate how to apply these algorithms.

You'll learn how to
Formulate robotics as a data-driven AI problem
Recognize the technology behind designing and deploying modern robotics: sensing, perception, training, and control
Apply state-of-the-art techniques in AI to robotics systems
Understand factors driving decision-making in technical design for several robotics applications
Design practical robotic systems for real-world applications: self-driving, prosthetics, and industrial automation