







After a successful FIRST Rebuilt Season, Team 4946, The Alpha Dogs, is proud to present our engineering report, business plan, and robot CAD. Our engineering report outlines the decision-making process taken to get to the robot design, optimization of electrical systems, and programming concepts. Public Version of 2026 Engineering Report.pdf (9.0 MB) Our business plan outlines our sponsorship interactions, short and long-term planning, and community outreach initiatives. Public Version of 20...
1678 Citrus Circuits 2026 CAD and Robot Code Release
Citrus Circuits is proud to release our 2026 Robot CAD and Code resources. Please feel free to add any questions/comments/feedback about the robot to this thread, we’ll be monitoring this space and responding ASAP. For questions relating to our scouting and strategy resources, we’ve created a separate thread for those question, please ask those questions pertaining to scouting/strategy in that thread. Best, -Mike

971 Spartan Robotics CAD and Code Release 2026
Team 971, Spartan Robotics, is proud to share our CAD (Onshape), technical documentation, and Robot Code for our 2026 robot, Mixtape! You can also find CAD files, technical documentation, photos, and videos from past seasons on our website. Please feel free to ask any questions.

AI Engineer's 2025 | Unsloth Documentation
Slides to our AI Engineer's Worlds Fair 2025 Workshop.

Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...

190 CAD Release 2026
Team 190 “Gompei and The HERD” is proud to release the CAD for both of our competing 2026 robots, Doomspiral and TURNOVER! Onshape FRC 190, 2026 V1 Doomspiral Onshape FRC 190, 2026 V2 TURNOVER Please feel free to ask any questions

Team 177 & 429 | Bobcat Robotics Program | 2026-2027 Build Thread
Bobcat SystemClone: Getting a Head Start Before SystemCore Ships No Systemcore? No problem. Every summer, we run developer projects to get our programmers comfortable with whatever WPILib has changed before the season actually starts. This year that meant getting hands-on with the new Systemcore-based control system early — except Systemcore isn’t available for teams to purchase yet, and FIRST hasn’t given a timeline for when that changes. Rather than wait around for an ETA, we built our own....

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

WDR 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The World Development Report 2026 explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping development as a general‑purpose technology.

Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
I’m accepting new sponsorships for The Modern Leader for 2026. If you’re interested (or you think your company may be interested), you can learn more here.

Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
What eras bookend our interregnum?

State of AI Report 2025
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.


The Era of Experience & The Age of Design: Richard S. Sutton, Upper Bound 2025