ICRA 2026 - Modern Software Tools for Robotics

Pre-download before the tutorial (takes 2-3 minutes)

The tutorials download ~130-240 MB of data packages on first run. Open your notebook now, run the first cell, and wait for Setup complete. The data is cached in your browser and will load instantly on the day.

Use the same browser and profile on the day. Do not use incognito/private mode.

Part 1 - Robotics & Vision Toolboxes

Peter Corke · Queensland University of Technology

Spatial math: poses & transforms
Mobile robotics & path planning
Arm kinematics & dynamics
Machine vision & camera models
Block diagram simulation (bdsim)

First-run download: ~240 MB (cached after that)

Open JupyterLab PDF

Part 2 - Modern Software Workflows

Tobias Fischer · Queensland University of Technology

Install pixi, or update it with pixi self-update.
On Unix, run curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | sh.
On Windows, run powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm -useb https://pixi.sh/install.ps1 | iex".
Restart your shell after installation.
Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/petercorke/ICRA2026-modern-software-tools.git.
Open the repository directory and run pixi run presentation.

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