Boston Robot Hackers is a community-driven organization dedicated to fostering innovation, learning, and collaboration in the field of robotics. We bring together enthusiasts, professionals, students, and makers who share a passion for building intelligent machines and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with robotics. (Request an invite to join us!)
Next Hands-On Meeting: 11/18/2025 at 6:00pm | Next Main Meeting: 12/11/2025 at 7:00pm
What's New
November meeting update
This was our most attended meeting to date. Skyler gave a great presenetation about his work applying neural nets to a robot arm. The neural net was trained by watching videos he made of the arm working under remote control
November 15, 2025
Lightening Talks
Our monthly meetings will now include a section of lightning talks. Anyone can self-nominate for a talk. We have time for up to three of them each meeting. This is a really quick 5-10 minute talk presented by one of us. Topics are anything robot-related where you explain something you know, or know how to do, or show, so we all learn from each other.
November 03, 2025
Introducing Hands-On Meetings!
Hands-on meetings are coming, starting on Oct 23. The usual place and time. Some of us will bring some partial robots or other widgets from our workshops and if you acquire a robot or robot kit before and want help building it or debugging it, bring it along. It will be a two hour meeting, without an agenda!
September 24, 2025
Become a member! Get yourself on the website!
If you're not a member, it's easy to join! If you are, let's get you listed on our member directory! If you have a cool project, we would love to showcase you on our site.
September 09, 2025
Meetings
All meetings at Artisans Asylum, 96 Holton Street, Allston
🛠️ Projects (see all)
Current community initiatives
iRobot Create-II
An iRobot Create-II (Roomba 960) controlled by a Raspberry PI and a Sick LASER scanner. Built with ROS2.
Status: initial testing
Dome ROBOT
A small simple differential drive robot built from scratch with no external help. Built with ROS2 and Linorobot2
Status: initial testing
ROYGBIV bot
Based on the Turtlebot2i, with custom 3d printed rainbow colored plates, 2 cameras, and a gripper.
Status: Needs update to ROS2
Trippy
A holonomic robot based on the Killough platform used for my Mechatronics BS degree from the U of Minnesota.
Status: Retired
