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!)
Come to our next meeting on TUESDAY November 11 @ 7:00PM
📰 What's New (see all)
Latest updates from our community
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.
December 03, 2025
Fourth BRH Meeting November 11 2025
Featured Talk: AI for generalized robotic manipulation. Learn about the foundational research around diffusion, VLAs and VLMs, and see a demo of Hugging Face's Lerobot platform for training models at home for under $500.
November 11, 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
🛠️ 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
