Hello Robot
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.
Facts
- Website: https://hello-robot.com/
- HQ: Martinez, California, United States
- Founded: 2017
- Segment: Service
Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
- Target environment: Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
- Customer context: Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
- Workflow context: Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
- Market position: Hello Robot sells Stretch as a research and developer mobile manipulator
- Source confidence: high
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 support. The title names Hello Robot Stretch directly, making the mobile-manipulator binding explicit. The work adds human-robot-interaction context for Stretch researc…
- 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. Available now for USD 29,950 with omnidirectional base, telescoping arm and NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX. Positioned for close collaboration with people including assis…
- 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 cues rather than explicit verbal instruction. The experiments use a Hello Robot Stretch mobile manipulator in collaborative object transport tasks. This is outside-te…
- 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-drop tasks. The authors evaluate the system in 10 real-world home environments using a Hello Robot Stretch platform. The paper reports a 58.5 perce…
- 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's disease through physical-therapy exercise games. Stretch RE1 uses its soft end effector as an adaptive target for hand, foot, and knee reaching exercises.…
- 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. The title names Stretch Hello Robot directly, making the mobile-manipulator binding explicit. The work adds assistive-navigation and manipulation context for Stretch research use.
- 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 objects, grasping them, and placing them on target receptacles. The real-world component provides a software stack for Hello Robot Stretch so labs can repl…
- 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 limitations using a Stretch RE1 mobile manipulator. Participants with and without motor impairments used the robot in a real kitchen environment for navigation and mani…
- 2023-03-31 - Research Publication - Online Modifications for Event-based Signal Temporal Logic Specifications - In this paper we present a grammar and control synthesis framework for online modification of Event-based Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications, during execution. These modifications allow a user to change the robots' task in response… The work is explic…
- 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, vertical lift, telescoping arm, wrist options, and compliant gripper. The authors justify the design with anthropometry, static-stability analysis, and empirical tr…
- 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. Priced at USD 17,950 for researchers and developers. Established a non-humanoid approach to useful home robotics.
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
Articles
- Hello Robot launches Stretch 4 for mobile manipulation - 2026-05-12 - Stretch 4 adds an omnidirectional base, upgraded sensing and stronger onboard compute to Hello Robot’s open mobile manipulator, with the company aiming the platform at research, enterprise and assistive home pilots.
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