The January issue of Servo Magazine has FIRST on the cover. Unfortunately, other than the cover, there isn't any copy devoted to FIRST. There is however a 'feature' article written by your ob'd. srvnt., Dr. Bot. So go out and buy lots of copies so I can get rich from royalties. (Just kidding, haven't even got paid for the article yet!) In more robot news, the January Wired has
the 50 best robots of all time article(Pretty good) They got most of my favorites, but left out a couple including "Robot" from "Lost in Space," and Huey, Dewey and Louie from "Silent Running."

They also have a in depth article about Stanley from the DARPA Challenge. Not sure about how technically correct the article is, especially about the role of vision versus lidar in the programming. But I am voting for Stanley for Time's "Entity of the Year."