About Botfolio
Robotics teams should be able to learn from each other without having to dig through old Discord threads, match videos, social posts, or scattered CAD files.
Most good mechanisms already exist somewhere. They're just hard to find the week you need one.
Botfolio gives teams a place to share designs, explain how they work, and make them easier for others to discover.
Botfolio is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated by FIRST®, FIRST Tech Challenge®, VEX Robotics®, or any other robotics competition organization referenced on this site.
What you can do here
Upload a CAD model or photo, choose the view that shows it best, and tell people what the mechanism does.
Other teams can browse designs, search by tags, compare different approaches, and use what they find as inspiration for their own work.
The goal is not to tell teams how to build a robot. It is to make it easier to see how other people solved similar problems.
Tags come from the teams
Robotics changes quickly, and teams constantly come up with new mechanisms, names, and ideas.
Botfolio lets the community suggest and vote on tags so the way designs are organized can grow naturally instead of being limited to a fixed list.
That makes it easier to find what people are actually building.
Optional AI feedback
The AI can review available design information, rendered views, and descriptions to point out strengths, potential concerns, and ideas worth considering.
It is meant to be another perspective, not an answer key. AI feedback can be wrong and should never replace testing, engineering judgment, mentor guidance, safety review, or official competition rules.
Why post your designs
Some of the best robotics ideas come from seeing how another team approached the same problem differently.
Share the mechanism that worked. Show the idea that took a few versions to get right. Help another team find a better starting point.
Every design posted here is one less team starting from a blank sketch.