Product profile
Stretch
Stretch is Boston Dynamics' mobile warehouse robot for case handling. It is designed for trailer unloading and repetitive logistics workflows in commercial...
Facts
- Company
- Boston Dynamics
- Product type
- mobile_manipulator
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/
About Stretch
Stretch combines a mobile base, perception mast, seven-axis arm and vacuum gripper in a single warehouse platform. Its vision system identifies cartons of different sizes and orientations inside trailers or containers, then plans grasps and transfers each case onto a conveyor. The mobile base repositions continuously as the trailer is emptied.
The robot handles boxes weighing up to 50 pounds and can process hundreds of cases per hour under supported conditions. It requires limited site infrastructure and can be introduced into existing dock workflows over a short deployment period. Boston Dynamics supplies Stretch with fleet software, implementation, operator training, remote monitoring and lifecycle service.
Market context
manipulation
Summary
Type: Mobile manipulator
Core: Case handling
Function: Material flow
Audience: Warehouses
Specifications
- applications
- Trailer/container unloading, case picking
- commercial_status
- Commercial
- deployment
- deployment in days; existing warehouse infrastructure; no pre-programming
- mobility
- Mobile warehouse robot with case-handling arm
- operational_environment
- Warehouse and logistics facilities
- payload_capacity_kg
- 22.7 kg
- primary_capability
- Warehouse case handling
- runtime_profile
- Multi-shift operation (long battery life)
- safety_features
- Real-time decision making, automatic dropped-box recovery
Operations
- Environment
- warehouse, indoor_structured
- Primary user
- warehouse_operator, enterprise_operator
- Role
- manipulation, transport
- Interaction model
- supervised_autonomy
- Mobility class
- mobile_manipulator
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Boston Dynamics expands Createc reseller and technology partnership — 2026-08-03
- Hyundai shareholders pursue acquisition of SoftBank’s remaining Boston Dynamics stake — 2026-07-16
- Boston Dynamics evaluates Korean suppliers for Atlas production — 2026-06-29
- Boston Dynamics announces 323,000-square-foot Waltham robotics and AI center — 2026-06-24
- 3D semantic scene-graph paper demonstrates open-vocabulary object retrieval on Spot — 2026-06-22
- Boston Dynamics reportedly set to become wholly owned by Hyundai — 2026-06-19
- Trajectory-consistent flow-matching paper evaluates visuomotor policies on Spot — 2026-05-08
- Boston Dynamics sees C-suite departures amid pressure to accelerate Atlas production — 2026-05-01