A league and a laboratory, in the same building.

The short version.

Builders bring machines. The machines train in a virtual dojo until they earn a belt. The ones that qualify fight in a real arena for a published prize pool. Everything that happens in either place is captured, and that record is what makes the next generation of machines better.

It is a sport and it is a research program, and the reason it works is that neither half would be as good alone. A research program cannot generate this much adversarial data because nobody volunteers for it. A sport cannot compound because nobody keeps the record.

Why Miami.

Because this is where we are, and because a league needs a room full of people who actually show up.

Miami has a port, an airport that reaches Latin America and Europe without a connection, and a tolerance for building things that have not been done before. It is a city that turns up for a spectacle and stays for the substance, which is the exact order we need people to arrive in.

The dojo is remote and always will be. You can train a machine here from anywhere. The arena is Miami, because a proving ground needs a place, and this one is ours.

The people building it.

Team to be published.

What we believe.

• Repetition over talent. The machine that has already lost to this situation is the one that wins it.
• Discipline before firepower. Control is the weapon. Everything else is hardware.
• Open dojo. Anyone can build a robot and enter it.
• Proof in the arena. Claims do not count. Rounds do.

What exists today.

We are before season one. The dojo is in development, the rules are being written with counsel, and the first bracket has not run.

We are telling you that here rather than letting you assume otherwise, because the whole argument of this company is that claims do not count and rounds do. It would be a strange place to start by overstating our own position.