Name: Arduino Tinkerkit Braccio
Brand: Arduino
Price: 275 USD
Availability: InStock

Arduino (Italy) Arduino Tinkerkit Braccio (1)

$275$275.00 on the Arduino US store (in stock, October 2026) without an Arduino board. The Braccio Bundle with an UNO was $305.00 and is sold out. Year 2016 (unconfirmed) is taken from the earliest dated coverage found (Open Electronics, March 2016), and Arduino's library repository dates from November 2016.

AvailableVia SSH / web / bridgeServo hobby armArduinoOpen hardwareEducation

Possibly ≤ 1 weekIn stock on the Arduino US store, which offers free shipping on orders over $50 within the contiguous US. Delivery times are not stated on the product page, and an Arduino board must be bought separately. Arduino store ↗

Remote control: Sketches are uploaded from a Mac or PC with the Arduino IDE, and laptop control needs a custom serial sketch or a community ROS bridge.

Official store ↗Getting started guide (retired docs) ↗Braccio library (GitHub) ↗

Overview

The Tinkerkit Braccio is Arduino's original desktop robot arm, an orange plastic kit with six hobby servos, a shield and a 5 V 4 A power supply. It suits makers and classrooms who want a simple Arduino-programmed arm, and its open CAD files and long-lived library have spawned many community ROS and kinematics projects. The catches are open-loop servos with no feedback, unpublished accuracy, a resettable fuse that cuts power on collisions, and no Arduino board in the $275 box. It is still in stock on Arduino's US store, while its successor the Braccio++ has been discontinued, and bus-servo arms with position feedback such as the Hiwonder xArm 1S start lower, at $199.99.

Specifications

Category	Robot arms · Desktop & hobby arms
Released	2016
Country	Italy
Availability	Available
Programmability	Open source (hardware + software)
Built-in autonomy	None / scripted · Moves only when controlled, or plays preset motions
LLM support	Possible via SDK · No LLM features. It is driven by plain Arduino sketches with the open `Braccio` library, so an LLM can write the code or send joint angles over a serial bridge.
MuJoCo simulation	Community model · Only third-party ROS URDFs exist, which would need converting. grassjelly/ros_braccio_urdf ↗
NVIDIA Isaac simulation	Community model · A small third-party project controls a Braccio model in Isaac Sim. ZachAtkins0n/Isaac_Braccio ↗
Gazebo simulation	Community model · Student and hobby projects provide Gazebo and RViz configurations, last updated around 2020. chethan-bhat/project-braccio ↗
Best for	Ages 14+ (estimated)
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	Hobby servos
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller
Remote control	Via SSH / web / bridge
DOF	6 servos (5 DOF + gripper) for base, shoulder, elbow, wrist pitch, wrist roll and gripper
Reach	80 cm maximum operating range (maker), likely the width of the whole working area, so about 40 cm from the base (unconfirmed), and 52 cm maximum height
Payload	150 g at 32 cm, 400 g in its most compact pose (maker)
Repeatability	Not published
Weight	792 g assembled
Controller	None included, an UNO, Mega or similar Arduino board plugs into the Braccio shield
Sensors	None (open-loop hobby servos, 2× SpringRC SR311 and 4× SR431, with no position feedback)
SDK	Arduino IDE with the official `Braccio` library (`Braccio.ServoMovement` sets all six joints); community ROS packages and inverse-kinematics libraries