Stretch (Boston Dynamics)
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Stretch is a Boston Dynamics warehouse robot with a mobile base and a long arm with suction cups that unloads boxes from trucks and containers.
Stretch is a Boston Dynamics warehouse robot with a mobile base and a long arm with suction cups that unloads boxes from trucks and containers.
Stretch is a wheeled warehouse robot from Boston Dynamics. It has a base that drives in any direction, a long arm, and a gripper with suction cups.
The job
Unloading a truck full of cardboard boxes is hard, hot and repetitive work. Stretch looks at the pile with cameras, picks boxes one by one, and places them on a conveyor.
Why it is different from Spot or Atlas
Spot walks and Atlas is a humanoid, but Stretch is deliberately simple: wheels, one arm, suction. Because the task is narrow, it can be reliable and easier to sell.
Key technologies
- Vision to find box edges in a messy pile
- Suction gripping that works on many box sizes
- Mobile base that moves without turning in place
Lesson
Robots that succeed commercially usually do one job very well. Stretch is a model of a practical robot product.
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