A robot built to learn.
So are you.
We are not really selling a robot. We are selling what building one teaches you: once you know how a thing is made, you stop throwing it away.
Most things are made to be replaced. Alan is made to be understood. Build one, and you will never look at a broken thing the same way again.
Build it. Break it. Understand it.
Alan arrives as parts and a manual. Which material, which fastener, repair or replace: these are the choices practising engineers make every day. Building Alan, you make them with the costs in front of you.
Design for Disassembly
Learn why a joint that opens outlasts one that's glued
Repair Over Replace
Work out why it broke before you order another
Count the Cost
See what every part takes to make, and where it ends up
The way forward:
Sustainability gets decided early, in a hundred small choices about material, fastening and repair. Most engineering courses never cover them.
So Alan teaches while you build it. Every module makes you justify something: why this material, why this fastener, why fix it rather than swap it. The habit is the product.
What you learn here decides what you build next.
Alan
A modular robot that ships as parts and a manual. Nothing is glued or potted, so any part can come out on its own. Every repair shows you why the design allows it.
Pre-order AlanThe Ledger
Every part comes with its real cost: material, energy, where it was made and what happens to it at the end. You learn to price a decision before you make it.
See the ledgerOpen Hardware
Schematics, firmware and build guides published in the open. A repair never depends on us still being around, and the next builder starts where you finished.
Join the waitlistAlan
A modular robot that ships as parts and a manual. Nothing is glued or potted, so any part can come out on its own. Every repair shows you why the design allows it.
Pre-order AlanThe Ledger
Every part comes with its real cost: material, energy, where it was made and what happens to it at the end. You learn to price a decision before you make it.
See the ledgerOpen Hardware
Schematics, firmware and build guides published in the open. A repair never depends on us still being around, and the next builder starts where you finished.
Join the waitlist