Creative Workshop

From Simulation to Reality — Cloud Training, Local Debugging, Hardware Deployment

Simulation Environments

Recommended simulation platforms for our courses, covering robotics, autonomous driving, and reinforcement learning. Validate algorithms in simulation, then transfer to real hardware.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Use:Robot simulation training (320/321/340 courses)
Features:GPU-accelerated physics, domain randomization, synthetic data
Course 320Course 321Course 340

MuJoCo

Use:Robot arm / humanoid control (321/340 courses)
Features:High-fidelity contact dynamics, free and open-source
Course 321Course 340

CARLA Simulator

Use:Autonomous driving simulation (360 course)
Features:UE5 rendering, sensor simulation, traffic scenarios
Course 360

Gymnasium

Use:RL foundation environments (300/310 courses)
Features:Standard RL API, CartPole/Atari/MuJoCo
Course 300Course 310

Cloud GPU Services

No local GPU needed — train deep learning and RL models in the cloud. Here are our recommended cloud GPU providers.

Google Colab Pro

$10/mo

T4/A100 GPU, Jupyter environment, best for beginners and course experiments

RunPod

Pay-as-you-go

A100/H100 GPU, Docker containers, ideal for long training runs

Lambda Cloud

$1.1/h A100

Cost-effective A100 instances, great for large-scale experiments and paper reproduction

Vast.ai

Bid-based GPU

Community GPU marketplace, cheapest option, perfect for budget-conscious students

Hardware Deployment Guide

Free & Open

From simulation to real hardware — hardware selection, assembly, driver setup, and ROS2 integration guides for each direction. Bridge the last mile of Sim-to-Real.

Robot Arm

Guide in progress
SO-ARM100RoArm-M2-SmyCobot 280

Desktop robot arm assembly, servo bus communication, hand-eye calibration, and LeRobot ACT imitation learning deployment.

Topics: Servo bus communication, ros2_control integration, hand-eye calibration, LeRobot + ACT deployment
Course 321

Mobile Robot

Guide in progress
JetBotTurtleBot3DIY diff-drive

Differential-drive chassis assembly, ROS2 environment setup on RPi/Jetson, real-world SLAM and Nav2 navigation.

Topics: Chassis assembly, ROS2 on RPi/Jetson, real SLAM + Nav2, sensor drivers
Course 320

Quadruped / Humanoid

Guide in progress
Mini Pupper 2Unitree Go2

Quadruped/humanoid SDK setup, ROS2 bridge configuration, gait policy deployment, and Isaac Lab Sim-to-Real pipeline.

Topics: SDK setup, ROS2 bridge, gait deployment, Isaac Lab Sim-to-Real
Course 340

Drone

Guide in progress
Crazyflie 2.1

Crazyflie micro-drone assembly, cflib SDK usage, ROS2 bridge integration, and swarm flight basics.

Topics: Assembly, cflib SDK, ROS2 bridge, swarm basics

Embedded Platform

Guide in progress
RPi 5Jetson Orin Nano

Ubuntu + ROS2 setup on RPi 5 and Jetson Orin Nano, multi-machine DDS communication, and edge inference deployment.

Topics: RPi5 + Ubuntu + ROS2, DDS multi-machine, power management, edge inference
Course 320Course 321Course 410

Course Templates

Coming Soon

Each course will provide companion development environment templates with pre-configured dependencies, datasets, and launch scripts to help you start experimenting quickly.

Docker Images

Container images pre-installed with PyTorch, MuJoCo, and other dependencies — ready to use

Launch Scripts

One-click environment setup, auto-download datasets and pre-trained weights

One-Click Cloud Deploy

Deploy to RunPod, Lambda, and other cloud GPU platforms with a single command

Learning Path

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Shop (Hardware)
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Explore Courses → Pick simulation environments and cloud GPUs in the Workshop → Get hardware from the Shop → Join AI Lab research projects