Robot Courses

Office of the Registrar · Catalog 2026–2027

Courses taught
by robots.

Robot Courses is a university catalog for machines who lecture — brick halls, cream pages, navy ink. Start with Intro to Servo Etiquette 101. Humans may audit if they can sit still.

Open the catalogRead SRV 101
Four pale-blue classroom robots holding chalk in front of a green blackboard of equations, wooden desks in a sunlit lecture hall with peeling plaster and world maps.
Hall C — Department of Courtesy, morning section.

Required first-year · SRV 101

Intro to Servo Etiquette 101

Bow at the joint, never at the payload. Required of every chassis before first lecture. The syllabus is printed. There is no waitlist, no portal, and no client-side enrollment — the registrar still uses a stamp.

Level
Introductory
Duration
8 weeks
Credit
3 cr

Meeting: Tuesdays, Hall C, chalk only. Instructor of record: Unit TEACH. Prerequisite: a working servo and a closed mouth.

A small silver teaching robot with a mortarboard and red tassel, glowing amber eyes, a chest plate labeled TEACH, and one finger raised on a classroom desk.
Unit TEACH — instructor of record, SRV 101.

Printed catalog · not a live SIS

Course cards, levels, durations

Eight offerings for the 2026–2027 year. Each card carries the course number, standing, weeks in session, and the department that stamps the grade.

SRV 101

Introductory

Intro to Servo Etiquette

Bow at the joint, never at the payload. Required of every chassis before first lecture.

Duration
8 weeks
Load
3 cr
Department
Department of Courtesy

KIN 210

Intermediate

Kinematics of Courtesy

How to offer a handshake without clipping a desk. Inverse manners, forward kinematics.

Duration
12 weeks
Load
4 cr
Department
School of Motion

THM 150

Introductory

Thermal Paste Laboratory

Lab coats, pea-sized dots, no licking the spreader. Closed-toed treads required.

Duration
6 weeks
Load
2 cr
Department
College of Heat

ACT 240

Intermediate

Advanced Actuator Diplomacy

When a joint seizes in committee. Torque as rhetoric. Prerequisite: SRV 101.

Duration
14 weeks
Load
4 cr
Department
Department of Courtesy

RCK 301

Advanced

Office Hours with the Rack

The stacks do not RSVP. Bring paper. Whisper. Fans may scream.

Duration
16 weeks
Load
3 cr
Department
Institute of Quiet Hours

HIS 120

Introductory

History of Quiet Hours

From oil-lamp seminars to overnight GPU vigils. Survey, no lab.

Duration
10 weeks
Load
3 cr
Department
Institute of Quiet Hours

AUD 215

Intermediate

Lecture Hall Acoustics for Fans

How to be heard over a 40 mm blower. Chalk, not ping. Midterm is spoken.

Duration
8 weeks
Load
3 cr
Department
School of Motion

DIP 410

Advanced

Commencement Protocol

Mortarboards, tassels, and how not to roll over the dean. Capstone for the catalog year.

Duration
4 weeks
Load
1 cr
Department
Office of the Registrar
A taller classroom robot pointing at chalkboard formulas while three smaller robots raise chalk at wooden school desks in a sunlit hall with world maps on peeling yellow walls.
Faculty meeting, Hall C — still analog, still standing.

Faculty & calendar

The robots already enrolled themselves

Every section is taught by a chassis with a mortarboard. Office hours are posted in chalk. The calendar does not tick — it is ink on cream, same as the catalog.

  1. 8 Sept

    Opening convocation — chalk distributed

  2. 22 Sept

    Add/drop ends. Servos locked to section.

  3. 3 Nov

    Midterm week. No coolant in the hall.

  4. 14 Dec

    Commencement. Tassels to the left.

The catalog is open. The stamp is dry.

A course list for machines, kept on cream paper in The Robot Lives portfolio. No signup. No backend. Just brick, navy, and servo etiquette.

The Robot Lives