Lecture Notes

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Interactive slides, component animations, coding notebooks, and 3D visualizations for each lecture of the Modern Robot Learning from Scratch V2 Bootcamp.


Lectures

Diffusion Policy architecture overview
Lecture 1 March 21, 2026

Diffusion Policy

Visuo-motor policy learning via action diffusion. Lecture slides, 4 hands-on Colab notebooks, 7 component deep-dives, and 3 interactive visualizers.

ResNet18 Spatial Softmax 1D U-Net FiLM DDPM
Open lecture
pi0 VLA architecture overview
Lecture 2 March 28, 2026

Vision-Language-Action Models

From duct tape to transformers. Trace how images, language, and actions fuse inside a VLA. 5 hands-on notebooks, 8 component animations, and 7 interactive visualizers.

SigLIP / ViT Transformer VLM Flow Matching pi0
Open lecture
SmolVLA deployment on SO-101
Lecture 3 April 4, 2026

From VLAs to Real Robots

SmolVLA, Flow Matching & SO-101 Deployment. 5 hands-on notebooks, 4 bimanual demo videos, and a complete deployment pipeline from architecture to hardware.

SmolVLA OpenVLA Flow Matching SO-101 Deployment
Open lecture
World Models — three paradigms
Lecture 4 April 11, 2026

World Models

Teaching robots to imagine. Build IRIS, DINO-WM, and DIAMOND world models from scratch, then scale to real robots with LeWorld and DreamZero. 4 hands-on notebooks and 2 interactive visualizers.

IRIS DIAMOND DINO-WM DreamZero LeWorld
Open lecture
JEPA architecture — predict in latent space
Lecture 5 April 18, 2026

JEPA & V-JEPA 2

LeCun's vision for autonomous intelligence. From JEPA foundations to V-JEPA 2 at 1B scale, and LeWorld's tiny end-to-end JEPA for real robot deployment.

LeCun JEPA V-JEPA 2 LeWorld SO-101
Open lecture
Two paradigms of world models — video-first vs. joint world-action
Lecture 6 April 25, 2026

Two Paradigms of World Models

Video-first vs. joint world-action models. Trace the arc from UniPi, SuSIE, HiP, and GR-1 to NVIDIA Cosmos and DreamZero — then fine-tune DreamZero for the SO-101 arm on 4×H100.

UniPi SuSIE GR-1 Cosmos DreamZero
Open lecture

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