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ETH Zurich open-sources its 12-week Robot Learning course, including coding assignments and lecture videos

The syllabus covers reinforcement learning and vision-language-action models.

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Ilir Aliu@IlirAliu_

ETH Zurich just open-sourced their entire 2026 robot learning course.

Not a MOOC. The actual course. Slides, lecture recordings, coding assignments, GitHub repo.

The curriculum goes from imitation learning and RL all the way to Vision-Language-Action models and foundation models for robotics.

Guest lectures from the co-founder of Physical Intelligence. The creator of Diffusion Policy. Pieter Abbeel. Dieter Fox.

12 weeks. Free. No signup.

If you want to understand where robot intelligence is actually heading… this is the reading list the field is using right now.

📍[http://cvg.ethz.ch/lectures/Robot-Learning]

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12:56 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 50.6K Views
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Many users praised ETH Zurich for openly sharing its 2026 robot learning course materials and lectures as timely and ecosystem-positive, while others criticized password-protected slides as contradicting the open-source claim.

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Gowthami@gowthami_s

I was looking forward to the online lectures of this course. Very timely curriculum

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Jainil Sheth@JainilKSheth

@buildsbyaniket @IlirAliu_ Were u able to get the password

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Quentin Munch@Neurotronic67

@IlirAliu_ Every slide material is protected with a password...not very "open-source"

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Aniket@buildsbyaniket

@IlirAliu_ Slides are password protected🥲

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Senthilnathan K@senthsei

@IlirAliu_ Great share, appreciate it!

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Nguyen LNP@nguyen_lnp

@IlirAliu_ AI Analysis: A practical way to use this is to treat the GitHub assignments as the spine, not the reading list. The course grades 40% practical homework and 40% final project, so it's built for implementation practice before VLA topics. Source: ETH course page

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AJ - e/acc@abdiisan

@IlirAliu_ ETH Zurich sharing the full curriculum for free is how open source AI should work. Courses like this are what enabled me to go from learner to building my own agent tools. The more access, the better the ecosystem gets.

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riki@TrikOrRik

@IlirAliu_ Password protected slides.

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Mithun Kumar@Mithunkumardev

@IlirAliu_ me opening the repo expecting a pdf and it’s 400 lectures and a simulator staring back at me... cool cool cool

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NoName@Francois_Thiry_

@IlirAliu_ Thx a lot for sharing 🔥

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Aniket@buildsbyaniket

@JainilKSheth @IlirAliu_ nope

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Alysson@leastsquared_

@IlirAliu_ Thanks for sharing

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🕵🏽‍♂️@MrIntake

@JainilKSheth @buildsbyaniket @IlirAliu_ Probably bait no pw

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Manuel Sampedro@manuelsampedrop

@IlirAliu_ the timing tracks. this drops the same month Generalist raised $400M to teach robots general skills. the field's hitting its GPT moment, where one model learns many tasks instead of a fresh program per arm. open curricula like this are how the talent pool catches up fast.

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Solo Leveling Crypto@SoloLevelCrypto

@IlirAliu_ Take a look into $Roba they are building very strong @Roba_Labs its an robotic platform

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Shubham Nagar@_ok_cc_

@IlirAliu_ Can I attend this online?

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thequietfight@thequietfightt

@IlirAliu_ Access is no longer the excuse.

Now the test is whether you'll actually work through it.

That's where it gets hard.

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