About

About Bracket Bot

Bracket Bot is being developed as a compact wheeled mobile-manipulation platform for programming, navigation and application-layer experimentation. Its intended role is to give developers an accessible physical robot on which to build behaviours and software without assembling the complete mobile base, arm and control system independently.

Bracket Bot currently collects registrations through a developer waitlist for the pre-commercial platform. Earlier kits supported community experimentation, while the present mobile-manipulation system is being developed for future developer access. Pricing, production specifications and a shipping programme have not yet been announced.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Claimed - Bracket Bot documentation describes depth-map generation, occupancy and traversability grids, D* path planning and robot motion control in its integration example.
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SLAM mapping
Claimed - Bracket Bot documentation describes depth-map generation, occupancy and traversability grids, D* path planning and robot motion control in its integration example.
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Supply

Supply / Components

Bracket Bot
Onboard Compute - Compute & Control - Raspberry Pi - Bracket Bot's documented 2025 kit configuration uses a Raspberry Pi 5 - source: bracketbotcapstone.github.io
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Timeline

CBC profiles Bracket Bot affordable robot kit
2025-02-24 - Market Signal - 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.
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Bracket Bot hackathon puts robot kits with 40 student teams
2025-02-07 - Demonstration - 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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