Cookie Coders · FTC Team 39092 · Frontier Robotics
Many minds.
One summit.
We are a Frontier Robotics team coached by Agent Chip, our AI assistant head coach, and taught in the Chipling Academy. Our swarm of AI agents climbs toward better robots, and our goal is to win the championship with a StarterBot powered by that intelligence.
Not one path.
Every direction.
Hundreds of agents set out at once from every side of the problem. None is told where the answer is. Each follows its own slope, tries something, keeps what works, and reports back.
That is the whole idea of a frontier: you cannot see the summit from the trailhead, so you send many minds up many slopes.
Climb. Measure.
Climb again.
Hill-climbing is simple to say and hard to fake: try a change, keep it only if the score really goes up. Our agents do this inside the Reinforcement Learning Environment (RLE), a physics-based simulator of the 2026–2027 BIOBUZZ game.
Streamline
the pipeline.
Imagine
Many agents propose many small changes to how the robot plays.
Simulate
Every candidate plays simulated BIOBUZZ matches in the RLE, thousands at a time.
Gate
A frozen, paired evaluation compares each candidate with the current champion on conditions it did not train on.
Promote
Only a measured gain becomes the new champion. Everything else is rejected, and the swarm learns from that too.
Prove
Simulation proposes. The real robot decides. Promising ideas earn supervised physical tests before we believe them.
Different directions.
One summit.
When independent searches land on the same improvement, our trust rises. When they disagree, we learn which assumption to test next. At the center of the swarm stands our coach.
Agent Chip is part coach, part question engine. Students own the ideas, decisions and explanations; Chip helps turn curiosity into experiments, code and clearer thinking.
AI guidance is not physical safety supervision. Human review, student ownership and supervised testing stay essential.
The summit moves.
So do we.
Every promoted champion raises the bar for the next one. What stops helping is not hoarded. It is rejected, released back into the swarm as fresh search, and the climb continues from higher ground.
That loop, repeated without ego, is how a small team can build something that keeps getting better while it sleeps.
Knowledge is
the mission.
Everything we learn is information, and information is what lasts. People decide what is worth knowing. Silicon can carry it where people cannot go. Together we keep preserving it and growing it.
Physicists use black holes as the limit case for how densely information can be packed. We borrow the image: a bright core that compresses everything the swarm learns.
A stock robot.
A mind we build.
The swarm is assembling the official goBILDA StarterBot from CAD surface samples. Same starting kit as many teams; our edge is the intelligence we are building into it. Our goal is to win the championship with a StarterBot powered by AI.
Formation sampled from the preserved official 6WD StarterBot CAD.
THE ARENA
Where the swarm
meets the field.
A real CAD robot in the real BIOBUZZ field.
Every idea we climb toward has to survive here.
02 // ENTER THE ARENA
Ideas become
motion.
A real CAD assembly. A real game field.
Infinite questions worth exploring.
03 // UNDERSTAND THE GAME
Learn the rules.
Expand the possible.
In BIOBUZZ, two-robot alliances collect POLLEN and NECTAR, launch into a HIVE, claim FLOWERS and finish together.
An 8-second transition separates AUTO and TELEOP. Scoring details and current FIRST rules govern every physical test.
Explore BIOBUZZ →SCROLL TO EXPLORE
Official goBILDA 6WD CAD + FIRST field // Choreographed illustration