Guide for learners

Use Duckietown to teach, learn, and do research.

Learn autonomy with Duckietown

Want to learn autonomy.. in autonomy? You might be a Makademic!

Makademics are a fusion of “makers” and “academics”.

You are a Makademic if you want to learn and build on your own, outside of an educational institution, and also want a deep understanding of how things are working.

Makademics can learn about robotics and AI by building their own Duckietown and using all of the course materials at their own pace.

Duckietown is learning autonomy: we provide a unique hands-on learning experience, and an international community to bounce off ideas with.

Makademic next steps

Join the Duckietown Slack to, e.g., find an instructor at your institution who will teach the course
Join the massive open online course “Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown”
Get the hardware

You can also :

take a look at all the learning resources we have as well as our Duckiebook

Join the AI Driving Olympics and challenge your understanding with the community!

Need help? Join the Slack community and ask away!

Duckietown was much more than just a class, it was a hands-on deep dive into hardware, software, and systems integration, and, most of all, it was a blast!

The Duckietown class is the autonomous driving pie: the filling is hardcore robotics, the casing is artificial intelligence, and as a plus you get some funny ducks on top!

Teaching the Duckietown class was a wonderful experience for me and my students. The materials are great and the hands-on experience with the robot really helps reinforce the curriculum.