The basic principle of robotics and AI -What is AI -Artificial intelligence and advanced robotics techniques-Introducing the robot and our development environment-Software components (ROS, Python, and Linux)-Robot control systems and a decision-making framework -The robot control system – a control loop with soft real-time control.

Setting up Your Robot-Technical requirements-What is a robot? -Robot anatomy – what are robots made of?- Subsumption architecture -Software setup-Hardware -Beginning at the beginning – knolling-Assembling the tracks-Mounting the tracks -Arm base assembly-Arm assembly-Wiring.

A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process-A systems engineering based approach to robotics- Storyboards -Decomposing hardware needs-Breaking down software needs-Writing a specification- The Image Recognition Process.

Picking up the Toys -Technical requirements-Task analysis -Setting up the solution -How do we pick actions? - Teaching the robot arm -Other robot arm machine-learning approaches-Teaching a Robot to Listen -Technical requirements -Robot speech recognition.

Avoiding the Stairs-What is SLAM? -Alternatives for navigation-Neural networks -Processing the image -Training the neural network for navigation - Convolution neural network robot control implementation - Putting Things Away-Decision trees-Entropy -Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality -The Turing test.