About MLP
Machinery, Logic, Power
We remove the barriers that keep people out of robotics: money, knowledge, and skill.
Our story
MLP started with three high schoolers who loved robotics. Their school's team charged up to $300 to join, and if you weren't already skilled, you got sidelined while the team leads did the real work.
The three of them built a combat robot and entered their first competition as “MLP.” Afterwards, they decided to fix that experience for everyone else.
MLP grew from that team into a company: workshops at high schools, public workshops for non-members, an R&D department, and most recently manufacturing, which funds the mission.
Company record
- Origin
- 3 students, 1 combat robot
- Mission
- Remove barriers to robotics
- Active today
- Robotics · Workshops · R&D · Manufacturing
- Newest addition
- Manufacturing services
- Toward
- Combat robotics tournaments
- Base
- Toronto, Canada
We want more people to build.
Knowledge, tools, mentorship, and manufacturing that turn ideas into reality.
Build robots.
Develop hardware.
Experiment with ambitious ideas.
Do meaningful research and development.
Four pillars, in the order the mission runs.
Robotics is the core. Workshops put it into practice, R&D pushes new ideas, and manufacturing funds the rest. Engineering and Community support all four.
Community
Technology advances fastest when people build together.
Students, makers, engineers, researchers, startups, educators, and industry partners learning from each other.
Mission & vision
Mission
Remove the barriers of money, knowledge, and skill that keep people out of robotics, through funding, workshops, and mentors.
Vision
A world where anyone with curiosity and determination has the opportunity, knowledge, community, and resources to develop technologies that improve lives and shape the future.
Principles that survive contact with deadlines.
Function over decoration
If it doesn't serve a purpose, it goes. Products are designed around what they must do.
Trade-offs, stated plainly
We tell you what you're trading (strength for weight, cost for tolerance, speed for finish) before you commit.
Respect for constraints
Constraints are the physics of making real things. Designs that respect them ship on time and work.
Competence through clarity
We describe our process, name our materials, publish our tolerances, and let the work carry the argument.