Robots · Warehouse & logistics
Stretch
A mobile robot designed to unload boxes from trucks and containers in warehouses.
- Maker
- Boston Dynamics
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Warehouse & logistics
- Status
- Commercially available
- Mobility
- Omnidirectional mobile base
- Autonomy
- Autonomous within its task envelope
- Actuators
- Robotic arm with a vacuum gripper on a mobile base
- Onboard compute
- Onboard perception and motion-planning compute
- AI models
- Box detection and grasp planning via computer vision
- Perception
- Vision-based box detection and pose estimation
- Control
- Arm motion planning with vacuum grasping
Sensors
Depth and vision camerasForce sensing in the gripper
Use cases
- Truck and container unloading
- Warehouse case handling
Limitations
- Specialized for box handling, not general manipulation
- Throughput depends on package variability