← Robotics Academy

Your path

From high school project to humanoid system designer

This page is the Academy’s long-range route. Use it when you want more than a list of modules: you want to know what a realistic progression looks like from first motion and teleop into software, integration, deployment, and eventually humanoid-scale systems.

From classroom projects toward integrated robot systems

Learning outcomes

  • Sequence milestones from first motion to integration projects without skipping safety.
  • Pair hardware chapters with Getting Started for ML vocabulary.
  • Use the Forum for accountability and peer review.
Learn

Roadmap: foundations → platforms → teleop → humanoids.

Practice

Pick one milestone; schedule 2 weeks with a tangible artifact.

Challenge

Public learning log or Forum thread — link your milestone artifacts.

Facilitation: Independent learners: use Student path for ordering; clubs align with Educators.

Self-check

Am I ready for humanoids?
After you have solid logging, teleop discipline, and systems literacy from SO-101–Communication.
What counts as a milestone artifact?
Video, plot, or repo tag — something others can inspect.

STEM alignment: lifelong learning habits, self-directed projects, peer review.

When to use this page

Use this roadmap if you are planning your own growth over months, designing a capstone arc, or deciding when a team is truly ready to move from arms into system integration and humanoids.

If you need a faster start

Go back to the Academy overview for the curriculum hub, or choose a role-filtered version through Students & builders or Educators & schools.

Milestones (not a single semester)

  1. Foundations: safe motion, logging, and a mental model of joints — SO-101, hands, how systems talk.
  2. Software fluency: sim + drivers + data — Software stack & tools, Getting Started articles.
  3. Integration design: choosing actuators, frames, power budgets — Mechanical & system design.
  4. Human-scale platforms: G1, H1, morphology tradeoffs.
  5. Industry lens: where robots pay rent — Industry applications, SVRC industries.
  6. Ownership: if you or your team buys hardware — Care, maintenance & buyers plus Repair & Maintenance.
Reality check: A custom humanoid is a multi-year systems program. This site helps you stack skills in the right order — and use SVRC as a physical anchor (Palo Alto) when you are ready for hardware, data, or support. Between modules, use the SVRC Forum for build logs, questions, and feedback from other builders on the same path.

Capstone ideas (examples)

  • Teleoperated arm + glove stack with logged episodes for imitation learning.
  • Quadruped or humanoid “task rehearsal” in sim, then constrained real runs.
  • Vertical slice for one industry workflow (e.g., inspection, material handling) with KPIs.

Use the roadmap with the rest of the system: start from the hub for the canonical sequence, use role pages to filter the same path for your audience, and use chapter forums to keep each milestone public and reviewable.

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