Facts

• Segment: Service
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2017
• Website: https://hello-robot.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Hello Robot builds mobile manipulators for homes, workplaces and robotics research. Its Stretch robots combine a compact mobile base, telescoping arm and open software stack, giving researchers and developers a practical platform for manipulation, assistance and human-centered robot applications.

Market context

Hello Robot is one of the clearest commercial platforms for non-humanoid home and assistive mobile manipulation. makes the company more relevant to Physical AI developers because it pairs an open robotics stack with a safer, sensor-rich form designed to work near people. Independent company founded in 2017. Hello Robot builds Stretch, an open-source mobile manipulator for researchers, developers and assistive use.

• Capability: Telescoping-arm manipulation. Home and workplace mobile manipulation. Assistive robotics workflows. Open-source robot development. Sensor-rich autonomous operation. Researcher and developer tooling
• Strategic position: Clearest commercial platform for non-humanoid home and assistive mobile manipulation. Pairs an open robotics stack with hardware designed to work near people

Products

• Stretch 4
• Stretch Research Edition

Facts

• Website: https://hello-robot.com/
• HQ: Martinez, California, United States
• Founded: 2017
• Segment: Service

Mobile manipulator company

Hello Robot develops Stretch, an open and human-scale mobile manipulator for home, workplace and research applications.

• Target environment: Homes, research labs, workplaces, assistive-care settings and indoor human-scale environments.
• Deployment model: Mobile manipulator product sales, open-source robotics platform support and research ecosystem adoption.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, assistive-technology teams, AI labs, universities and organizations testing indoor manipulation.
• Workflow context: Mobile manipulation, home assistance, teleoperation, research data collection, object handling and indoor task experimentation.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial research and development platform with multiple Stretch generations and broad academic usage.
• Market position: Mobile manipulation company focused on accessible indoor robot hardware rather than industrial automation arms.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, navigation in cluttered spaces, safety, cost, developer support and useful task coverage.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes mobile manipulators, assistive robots, home robotics research and open robotics platforms.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-10 - Research Publication - Human Recognition–Driven Interaction with Hello Robot Stretch for Supporting Older Adults - The paper uses Hello Robot Stretch for human-recognition-driven interaction in older-adult…
• 2026-05-12 - Product Launch - Hello Robot launches Stretch 4 mobile manipulator - Hello Robot launched Stretch 4 as an open-source mobile manipulator for Physical AI applications.
• 2025-02-05 - Research Publication - Implicit-communication paper studies collaborative transport with Hello Robot Stretch - The paper studies implicit communication in human-robot collaborative transport using motion cu…
• 2024-01-22 - Research Publication - OK-Robot evaluates open-vocabulary mobile manipulation on Stretch - OK-Robot combines vision-language object detection, navigation, and grasping modules for training-free pick-and-dro…
• 2023-12-20 - Research Publication - Stretch with Stretch study uses Stretch RE1 for physical-therapy exercise games - The study builds a Stretch-based system that verbally and visually guides older adults with Parkinson…
• 2023-10-25 - Research Publication - An Assistive Robot in an Indoor Scenario: the Stretch Hello Robot as Environment Organizer - The paper uses Stretch Hello Robot as an assistive indoor environment organizer.
• 2023-06-20 - Research Publication - HomeRobot benchmark uses Stretch for open-vocabulary mobile manipulation - HomeRobot introduces an open-vocabulary mobile-manipulation benchmark for navigating to novel household obje…
• 2023-04-05 - Research Publication - Custom teleoperation-interface study evaluates Stretch RE1 in assistive kitchen tasks - The study evaluates browser-based teleoperation interfaces for people with severe physical limi…
• 2021-09-22 - Research Publication - Stretch design paper details a compact mobile manipulator for indoor environments - The paper presents the Stretch mobile-manipulator design, combining a differential-drive base, vert…
• 2020-07-14 - Product Launch - Hello Robot introduces Stretch Research Edition mobile manipulator - Hello Robot emerged from stealth with Stretch Research Edition, an open-source mobile manipulation platform.

Team

• Aaron Edsinger - Co-Founder and CEO
• Charlie Kemp - Co-Founder and CTO - Adds technical founder context for Stretch's mobile manipulation design and Hello Robot's research-facing robotics platform.

Context tags

• Indoor assistive mobile manipulation - Workflow
• Mobile manipulation research - Capability
• Mobile manipulator OEM - Stack Layer
• Indoor mobile manipulator builder - Peer Group
• Assistive robot arm control - Workflow
• Research labs - Customer Environment
• Home assistive care - Customer Environment

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-12 - Hello Robot launches Stretch 4 for mobile manipulation - Stretch 4 adds an omnidirectional base, upgraded sensing and stronger onboard compute to Hello Robot’s open mobile manipulator, with the company aimi…