Backslash Robotics
Backslash Robotics was founded by Taylor Lynch in his hometown of Sacramento. Backslash started as a combat robotics team while he was working on a degree in Mechatronics Engineering at Chico State University, and grew into commissioned work built on those same skills.
He’s been doing technical 3D design and modeling for over eight years. That experience shows up in how the work gets done: meticulous about fit and finish, and willing to reprint a job five times if that’s what it takes to meet the standard we uphold for commissioned projects.
Taylor is a member of the American Institute of Mechatronic Engineers at Chico State and is active at events both throughout California and across the country. Taylor is also an Eagle Scout, having earned the rank in 2021.
Client work and internal work on our own robots share the same loop: design, make, test, repeat — rapid prototyping until you get exactly what you envisioned.
Capabilities
- 3D printing — FDM up to about 390 × 390 × 340 mm (~15.4 × 15.4 × 13.4 in), engineering-grade filaments (hotend to 370 °C), plus resin for small ultra-precise parts
- Custom modeling from sketches, photos, or a rough idea
- Metrology-grade laser scanning at up to 0.05 mm (~0.002 in)
- Reverse engineering for discontinued or broken hardware
Example: a customer needed a boat emblem the original maker had stopped producing — we reverse-engineered the weathered original, walked color and material options, and printed a replacement that matched the factory fit with a cleaner finish.
In the arena
Combat robotics is where the process gets stress-tested — bots designed and built end to end, then run until something breaks and the next revision is better. The current lineup centers on Zica, with Cerberus in development and earlier machines still part of the story.
Up next: Open Sauce 2026 — the largest maker convention on the globe. Taylor will be there as an exhibitor with the robots and some of our coolest projects; Cerberus fights in a combat bracket sponsored by Palm Beach Bots.
Press
- The Orion — Welcome to Robotronica Mar 2026
- The Orion — Robotronica event coverage Apr 2026
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