JenaleaR/DLI_Robotics_Workshop_2025

Repository for the Robotics and Automation Workshop at the Deep Learning Indaba in Kgali,Rwanda 2025 # 🤖 3rd Workshop on Robotics and Automation in Africa — DLI 2025 > **When:** 21 August 2025 > **Where:** Kigali, Rwanda (Deep Learning Indaba) > **Note:** Attendance is limited to registered DLI participants. --- ## 🚀 What’s this workshop about? We’re back for the **3rd Workshop on Robotics & Automation in Africa**, a fast-paced, hands-on session showcasing practical robotics and robot-learning activities. You’ll see a live demonstration, then dive into a Colab notebook that gets you reasoning about human pose estimation for robotics tasks. --- ## 🧭 Quick links * 🏠 Workshop site (schedule, speakers, logistics): Workshop Website * 📓 **Open the tutorial notebook in Colab:** → **Launch on Colab** ⬆️ * 💾 Deep Learning Indaba 2025: Website --- ## 🎯 You’ll learn ### Pose estimation fundamentals * 🧩 What keypoints, skeletons, and confidence scores mean in practice * 👥 Single-person detection basics * 📈 How to think about simple quality checks (e.g., % of keypoints detected, stability over time) ### Hands-on in Colab * ⚙️ Environment setup and troubleshooting in Colab * 🖼️ Running inference on images/video and overlaying skeletons * 🧵 Robot decision-making ### From pixels to robot-useful signals * 🎛️ Mapping keypoints to interpretable features (angles, distances, simple poses) * 🔁 A tiny state-machine pattern: “if gesture → do behavior,” with guard rails ## ▶️ How to use this repo 1. Click **Open in Colab** above. 2. Run the setup cell(s) and follow the notebook prompts. 3. Bring questions! The session is interactive and demo-driven. --- ## 🎬 Pre-workshop demo: Pepper @ CMU-Africa (CSSR4Africa) We’ll kick off with a short demo inspired by **Culturally Sensitive Social Robotics for Africa (CSSR4Africa)** - showcasing how **verbal and non-verbal cultural norms** can be encoded to make social robot interactions more natural on the continent. Learn more here: CSSR4Africa --- ## 🧑‍🏫 Speakers & schedule See the latest lineup (keynotes, panel, timings) on …