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 October 9th @ 7:00PM
📰 What's New (see all)
Latest updates from our community
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
Third BRH Meeting October 9 2025
Featuring a talk discussing novel methods for tackling these issues with 3D printing flexible materials and biomimetic design
October 09, 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
