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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

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