About Us 

Our Mission

Railside Robotics seeks to make combat robotics accessible and engaging to all Purdue students, regardless of background or experience. By providing design support, teaching fabrication, and hosting competitions, we empower students to transform classroom knowledge into real engineering innovation while fostering collaboration, creativity, and technical excellence.

What We Do

Our Values

What We're Working On

Current focus

We do our best to ensure all members of Leadership are contributing and doing good work, while also trying to make sure they feel supported in doing so. We hold weekly meetings for the Leadership Team to discuss club matters and occasionally invite other club members to present projects during that time. Our Leadership Team has recently expanded in size and is in the midst of development, so our club is also figuring out what each position’s responsibilities are and ensuring that those responsibilities can be met reasonably. As our club continues to grow, we want to make sure our Leadership Team can grow along with it, so finding a way to sustainably do that is our current goal. This club has a great team of people to get to work with, which makes the jobs easy and sometimes fun!

Ongoing Projects

Our current project per say is creating a system for the club that allows new members to onboard easily with a bit of mentorship help from us, while also enabling returning members to build extremely competitive robots they can take all over the Midwest to compete. Combat robotics is an extremely fun and entertaining hobby for many of our members, but it also teaches really valuable skills that our members can take with them into their careers! Our club is a way to bridge the gap between a professional engineering club, where we teach skills hands-on and practice iterative design principles, and a fun club, where we create bots and compete with them in an exhilarating environment.

Future Plans

We plan to get a more dedicated team of mentors going that will only continue to grow as our club does, that way there will always be people for our members to go to with questions, and those people will be very qualified to answer. As our members learn more themselves, they can teach other members as well, developing our own knowledge base that can be shared as the club continues.