Bracket Bot company profile
Bracket Bot Inc. builds low-cost wheeled robot/developer kits for students and developers learning robotics software. Its current Bracket Bot robot is priced at $2,000 with developer pre-orders planned for May 2026; earlier $500 kit prototypes were used in a Waterloo hackathon and CBC-covered student project.
Facts
- Segment: Development Platform
- Country: Canada
- Website: https://www.bracketbot.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Events
- Team
- Context tags
- Sources
Summary
Bracket Bot Inc. builds low-cost wheeled robot/developer kits for students and developers learning robotics software. Its current Bracket Bot robot is priced at $2,000 with developer pre-orders planned for May 2026; earlier $500 kit prototypes were used in a Waterloo hackathon and CBC-covered student project.
Market context
builds wheeled robot hardware and developer software for robotics education, navigation, computer vision and app-layer robot programming.
Facts
- Website: https://www.bracketbot.com/
- HQ: Waterloo, Canada
- Segment: Development Platform
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.
- 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.
Team
- Brian Machado - Founder - He created the Bracket Bot kit and hosted the Waterloo hackathon that put robots in the hands of student teams.
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 - Peer Group - 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.
- Education humanoid robot builder - Peer Group - CBC and the Luma hackathon page frame Bracket Bot around robotics learning and developer use.
- Wheeled humanoid navigation - Workflow - The hackathon and GitHub materials emphasize navigation and mapping SDKs.
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