From Bits to the Physical World

A Full-Stack Robotics Guide for AI and Software Developers

For every developer who's shipped code but never shipped atoms. Your next deployment won't be on the cloud, it will be on the ground.

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Part 1

The Big Picture

See the whole mountain first

01What Is a Robot, Really?02The Full-Stack Map of Robotics 03Who's Who in the Industry?

Part 2

Hardware

The robot's body

04Sensors 05Actuators 06Compute Platforms

Part 3

Operating System

The robot's nervous system

07ROS 2 08DDS Deep Dive

Part 4

Algorithms

The robot's brain

09SLAM 10Nav2 11MoveIt 2 12Perception 13Behavior Trees

Part 5

Simulation & Training

Get it working in virtual worlds first

14Why Simulation?15NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Part 6

AI Meets Robotics

New paradigms

16Reinforcement Learning 17Imitation Learning 18Foundation Models

Part 7

Toolchain

A developer's daily kit

19Visualization & Debugging 20Dev Environment & DevOps

Part 8

The Harsh Reality of Deployment

From lab to real world

21Real-Robot Deployment 22Reliability Engineering 23Fleet Management

Part 9

Industry Reality

The truth behind shiny demos

24Business Models 25China vs. Global 26Career Advice