Company profile
Hello Robot
Hello Robot builds mobile manipulators for homes, workplaces and robotics research. Its Stretch robots combine a compact mobile base, telescoping arm and o...
Facts
- Segment
- SERVICE
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Martinez, California
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- https://hello-robot.com/
About Hello Robot
Hello Robot builds Stretch mobile manipulators as open development platforms for work in human spaces. Stretch 4 combines a three-wheel omnidirectional base, high-speed lift, telescoping arm, three-axis wrist and interchangeable end tool in a 43-centimetre-diameter footprint. Its arm reaches 55 centimetres and handles up to 2.5 kilograms when extended or four kilograms when retracted, while removable ballast simplifies transport.
Dual hemispherical LiDAR units and multiple RGB cameras provide nearly all-around workspace sensing, supported by onboard edge-AI compute. The open software stack includes Python interfaces, ROS 2, Nav2, MoveIt, MuJoCo and Gazebo resources, plus browser teleoperation and reference demonstrations for mapping, navigation, grasping and learning from demonstrations. Researchers can attach custom tools, external GPUs and new sensors through documented mechanical and software interfaces. Stretch remains a professional research and commercial-development platform, not a certified consumer home appliance.
Market context
PRODUCTION
Summary
Type: Mobile robots
Core: Stretch
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Researchers
Products
- Stretch 4 — mobile_manipulator
- Stretch Research Edition — mobile_manipulator
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Human Recognition–Driven Interaction with Hello Robot Stretch for Supporting Older Adults — 2026-06-10
- Hello Robot launches Stretch 4 mobile manipulator — 2026-05-12
- Implicit-communication paper studies collaborative transport with Hello Robot Stretch — 2025-02-05
- OK-Robot evaluates open-vocabulary mobile manipulation on Stretch — 2024-01-22
- Stretch with Stretch study uses Stretch RE1 for physical-therapy exercise games — 2023-12-20
- An Assistive Robot in an Indoor Scenario: the Stretch Hello Robot as Environment Organizer — 2023-10-25
- HomeRobot benchmark uses Stretch for open-vocabulary mobile manipulation — 2023-06-20
- Custom teleoperation-interface study evaluates Stretch RE1 in assistive kitchen tasks — 2023-04-05