Insights, tutorials, and hands-on guides to help you advance your robotics learning journey through AI integration and practical projects.
An exploration of how vibe coding — the AI-assisted, intuition-driven approach to software development — holds up when applied to robotics, where physical constraints and real-world complexity push back.
Danqing Zhang•March 6, 2026
Read more →A guide to camera calibration techniques for low-cost robots, covering intrinsic and extrinsic calibration, checkerboard and ArUco marker methods, and practical tips for accurate perception.
PathOn Robotics Team•March 6, 2026
Read more →A guide to using your iPhone as a sensor for robotics applications, leveraging its LiDAR, cameras, IMU, and ARKit for perception and data collection.
PathOn Robotics Team•March 6, 2026
Read more →A guide to setting up autonomous navigation on the LeKiwi mobile manipulator using ROS2 Nav2 stack, SLAM Toolbox for mapping, and a 2D RPLidar for perception.
PathOn Robotics Team•February 19, 2026
Read more →If you're starting your journey in robotics, chances are you'll need to work with both ROS (Robot Operating System) and ROS 2. In this guide, I'll walk you through installing ROS 2 Foxy, the LTS version compatible with Ubuntu 20.04, without affecting your existing ROS 1 (Noetic) setup.
Melody Jindan Huang•August 06, 2025
Read more →A comprehensive guide to robotics simulation environments including MuJoCo, ManiSkill, and PyBullet for learning and testing robotics algorithms.
Danqing Zhang, PathOn.ai Team•May 20, 2025
Read more →Enter the AI robotics world with low-cost open-source robot arm and LeRobot
Danqing Zhang, PathOn.ai Team•May 19, 2025
Read more →