Bracket Bot
About
About Bracket Bot
Bracket Bot is developing an affordable general-purpose robot and software development platform for programmers, students and robotics teams. The project began around an open-source kit designed to make capable mobile hardware accessible at roughly consumer-electronics prices. A new developer system is available for pre-order, while the team remains small and the product has not yet reached broad commercial availability.
Earlier kits have supported rapid experiments in teleoperation, perception and autonomous movement. At a University of Waterloo hackathon, teams used the platform for projects including VR-controlled navigation with live video, computer-vision games and food delivery with object recognition and a mechanical gripper. These projects demonstrate the kit as a modular base for integrating sensors, software and task-specific mechanisms; the current generation is still moving from developer prototypes toward a shipped product.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Raspberry Pi
Inbound - Compute & Control - Bracket Bot's documented 2025 kit configuration uses a Raspberry Pi 5
Source
Team
- Brian Machado - Founder - He created the Bracket Bot kit and hosted the Waterloo hackathon that put robots in the hands of student teams.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-02-24 - Market Signal - CBC profiles Bracket Bot affordable robot kit
The kit could be customized to talk, walk or perform basic household tasks. The prototype used a Raspberry Pi, camera, battery, speaker and hoverboard motors. The kit price was $500 for hobbyists learning robotics.
Source - 2025-02-07 - Demonstration - Bracket Bot hackathon puts robot kits with 40 student teams
The hackathon ran in Waterloo from 7 to 9 February 2025. The event page described 40 teams of two to three participants, each with its own Bracket Bot. The program focused on obstacle navigation, computer vision and custom robot projects.
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Context
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Context tags
- Semi-humanoid companies - Peer Group - The official product render shows a wheeled humanoid-style robot with head, arms and mobile base.
- Wheeled humanoid robot builder - Stack Layer - Bracket Bot is a wheeled humanoid-style robot builder.
- Robot development platform OEM - Peer Group - GitHub describes Bracket Bot around mapping/navigation SDKs for app-layer robot programming.
- Robotics research and education - Customer Environment - The kit is used for student teams, programming, navigation and computer-vision projects.
- Wheeled humanoid navigation - Workflow - The hackathon and GitHub materials emphasize navigation and mapping SDKs.