Facts

• Company: Hello Robot
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://hello-robot.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

Stretch Research Edition is Hello Robot mobile manipulator for research, education and assistive robotics with a compact mobile base and extendable arm.

Overview

Stretch Research Edition is Hello Robot mobile manipulator for research, education and assistive robotics with a compact mobile base and extendable arm.

Market context

Original research-focused Stretch platform from Hello Robot, establishing the company's compact mobile-manipulation approach for home and lab robotics.

• Target environment: Factories, warehouses, labs, service sites and controlled indoor environments where wheeled manipulation can operate safely.
• Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, object handling, dual-arm or arm-based manipulation, teleoperation and facility task execution.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, logistics teams, research labs and service organizations evaluating mobile manipulation.
• Deployment model: Commercial or available product positioned for customer use, integration or developer adoption.
• Commercial maturity: Publicly presented as commercial or available, with maturity depending on deployment scale and support coverage.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site fit, manipulation reliability, safety, navigation, integration effort and task economics.
• Market position: Stretch Research Edition sits in the mobile-manipulation lane, using mobility plus arms to pursue practical physical tasks.
• Adjacent products: Kinisi 01, DexForce W1, Stretch RE2, Quanta X2

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Autonomous navigation, object handling, dual-arm or arm-based manipulation, teleoperation and facility task execution.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factories, warehouses, labs, service sites and controlled indoor environments where wheeled manipulation can operate safely.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Autonomous navigation, object handling, dual-arm or arm-based manipulation, teleoperation and facility task execution.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factories, warehouses, labs, service sites and controlled indoor environments where wheeled manipulation can operate safely.

Specifications

• Form Type: Mobile manipulator research robot
• Mobility: Wheeled mobile base
• Manipulation: Telescoping arm with wrist and gripper
• Software Stack: ROS-based research platform
• Operational Environment: Indoor human environments

Timeline / Research

• 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…
• 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.