PAI-200 · Education

Connection Systems: From a Snap to a Policy

The bridge from a maker's snap-together kit to a learned policy on real hardware. Build the sense-think-act loop in code, read a sensor over a real bus, watch a block graph become a policy that out-learns your hand rule, switch a magnet that holds for free — the energy a body already has can be the guarantee, the seed of the certificate idea — and clone an expert from its own demonstrations.

L1·2 modules · 5 labs·5 lessons
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FROM THE OPEN-SOURCE ROBOTICS WAVE

The credential the ecosystem leaves on the table.

The $100 SO-101 arm, Hugging Face's LeRobot, and the worldwide hackathons made teleoperate → record → train → deploy something anyone can do. What they do not give you is a credential — the LeRobot course issues none, by design. This course credentials the same skills, assessed on your own runs: pass the labs and claim a verifiable, standards-aligned certificate you can take anywhere. We certify what you demonstrate here, not a course we did not run.

Run the loop live →How the credential verifies →
Module 1

The loop, snapped together

See that a snap-together kit is a sense-think-act loop, and that the loop is code you can write.

  1. L0The loop you can holdWrite a sense-think-act controller that drives an agent to a target, and see that the graph you snapped together is a program.→
  2. L1What the wire carriesRead a real sensor value off a two-wire bus and route it into a decision -- the connector layer, in code.→
Module 2

When the graph becomes a policy

Cross from a hand-tuned block to a learned one, switch a magnet that holds for free, and clone an expert from its demonstrations.

  1. L2The graph is a policyWatch a learned think block discover a fix your hand rule could not -- the step from maker to physical AI.→
  2. L1The magnet, switchedModel an electropermanent magnet: hold force versus gap, and why switching beats holding.→
  3. L2From teleop to a released policyRecord demonstrations from an expert, clone a policy by least squares, and deploy the clone.→