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Learning index / Rubric 1.0

Useful learning, with the context to choose.

We index third-party teaching and research material. The original educators and maintainers create and host the lessons.

What makes an entry useful?

Each entry identifies its provider, explains a concrete learning activity and gives you a suggested starting point. Expand it to see background, tools, access limits and version notes. Levels and first activities are our editorial guidance, rather than promises from the provider.

Six inclusion checks

1. An identifiable original educator, university, maintainer or research team.
2. Substantive material available without payment. A teaser, trial or enrollment page alone does not qualify.
3. A robotics task or directly relevant foundation, such as estimation or control.
4. A concrete next step: study, implement, simulate, build or reproduce.
5. Enough context to judge requirements and important limitations.
6. Preserved source evidence and an access-check date.

The editorial rubric

We assess learning substance, actionability, access clarity, context and distinct contribution on a 0–2 scale. Every dimension must score at least 1 and the total at least 7/10, alongside all six inclusion checks. These are internal editorial checks, not public course rankings or measures of teaching effectiveness.

We inspect first-party sources, run deterministic record checks and a separate evidence-bound AI editorial review, correct findings, and test the browsing interface before publishing. AI review is not independent human review. Source review does not establish that a course, installation or research result has been reproduced by us.

What “free” means here

The linked core learning material was accessible without payment at the recorded check. Physical robots, tools, storage, GPU time, hosted notebooks, optional certificates or campus assessment may cost money or require accounts. Each entry describes its scope.

Free access is different from an open-source license. Code, datasets, model weights and course text can have different terms. We link to original material; we do not rehost lessons or claim permission to redistribute them. Check upstream licenses before reuse.

Versions, history and maintenance

Older material can still teach useful principles. We label archives, development branches, incomplete courses and significant dependency limitations. An access-check date records our source inspection, not when the provider last updated a resource.

Corrections go through source reinspection and a fresh bound review. Links and scope need checking again when entries are refreshed; this first edition does not claim continuous monitoring of every provider.

Coverage and known gaps

This edition covers foundations, ROS, perception, planning, control, simulation, manipulation, robot learning, hardware, navigation, drones and research methods. It includes 78 reviewed entries from 87 discovery candidates; 9 remain unpublished because access, substantive content or distinct scope was not established.

Coverage is currently strongest in English and in software, manipulation and mobile robotics. School-age learning, non-English teaching, soft robotics and marine robotics need further research. A missing entry is not a judgment that the resource is poor or unavailable to everyone.

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