Facts

• Company: Boston Dynamics
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Supply / Components
• Sources

Summary

Stretch is Boston Dynamics' mobile warehouse robot for case handling. It is designed for trailer unloading and repetitive logistics workflows in commercial distribution environments.

Overview

Stretch is Boston Dynamics' mobile warehouse robot for case handling. It is designed for trailer unloading and repetitive logistics workflows in commercial distribution environments.

Market context

Stretch is Boston Dynamics' warehouse case-handling robot built for unloading boxes and moving goods in logistics workflows.

• Target environment: Warehouses, distribution centers and loading docks.
• Workflow context: Trailer unloading, case conveyance, box movement and repetitive material handling in structured logistics environments.
• Customer context: Logistics operators and warehouse managers seeking to automate case-handling bottlenecks.
• Deployment model: Commercial product with customer deployments in logistics facilities.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially deployed platform with visible field use.
• Adoption constraints: Designed for structured warehouse layouts and standard case sizes. Less effective in highly variable or unstructured environments.
• Market position: A specialized mobile manipulation robot targeting the narrow but high-value warehouse unloading problem. Sits alongside Digit in the logistics automation space but uses a non-huma…
• Adjacent products: Digit, FoxBot, Proxie

Audience

Warehouses

Workflow

Trailer unloading, case conveyance, box movement and repetitive material handling in structured logistics environments.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Warehouses, distribution centers and loading docks.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Warehouses
• Workflow: Trailer unloading, case conveyance, box movement and repetitive material handling in structured logistics environments.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Warehouses, distribution centers and loading docks.

Specifications

• Primary Capability: Warehouse case handling
• Operational Environment: Warehouse and logistics facilities
• Applications: Trailer/container unloading, case picking
• Commercial Status: Commercial
• Runtime: Multi-shift operation (long battery life)
• Safety Features: Real-time decision making, automatic dropped-box recovery
• Deployment: deployment in days; existing warehouse infrastructure; no pre-programming
• Mobility: Mobile warehouse robot with case-handling arm
• Payload Capacity Kg: 22.7 kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Warehouse case-handling robot
• Workflow: Box handling
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment Environment: Warehouse environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Deployed platform

Timeline / Research

• 2026-06-24 - Facility Opening - Boston Dynamics announces 323,000-square-foot Waltham robotics and AI center - The facility will consolidate three nearby operations and expand advanced manufacturing, AI, workforce train…
• 2024-10-29 - Deployment - Arvato Logistics deploys Boston Dynamics' Stretch robots in Louisville warehouse - • Arvato Logistics deployed two Boston Dynamics Stretch robots at its Louisville, Kentucky warehouse.
• 2023-01-31 - Deployment - DHL Supply Chain achieves first commercial deployment of Boston Dynamics' Stretch robot - DHL Supply Chain invested $15M to deploy Boston Dynamics Stretch robots in North American warehouse ope…
• 2022-03-28 - Product Launch - Boston Dynamics Launches Stretch Robot for Commercial Purchase - Stretch is a mobile robot designed to unload floor-loaded trailers and containers in warehouses.
• 2022-01-26 - Market Signal - DHL Supply Chain becomes Stretch’s first commercial customer - • DHL Supply Chain invested $15 million in Boston Dynamics' Stretch robots to automate warehouse operations in North America.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Active Customer Site - first commercial Stretch deployment - 2023-01-31 - DHL Supply Chain - trailer unloading - DHL Supply Chain achieved the first commercial deployment of Boston Dynamics Stretch for trailer and conta…

Supply / Components

• twincat_twinsafe_machine_control_for_stretch - Twincat Twinsafe Machine Control For Stretch - Compute & Control - Beckhoff - Boston Dynamics Stretch uses Beckhoff automation, machine-control, and TwinSAFE integrated saf…