RightHand Robotics is building RightPick 4 into piece-picking cells

RightHand Robotics launched RightPick 4 on January 24, 2024, increasing the item range for robotic piece picking. The company says the system can handle items up to 25 percent larger and 50 percent heavier than the prior RightPick generation.

The product combines a three-finger suction gripper, industrial vision, and RightPick AI. Piece picking is not a single motion problem: the cell has to identify the item, choose a grasp, recover from failed picks, and place the product into the next container without damaging it or slowing the line.

RightHand says RightPick 4 was trained with more than one petabyte of operational data collected over eight years of picking tens of millions of items. These are aggregate fleet figures, not customer-level averages.

RightHand was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT. Harvard material names Yaro Tenzer, Leif Jentoft, and Lael Odhner among the founders, connecting the company to academic work on compliant robotic hands and warehouse manipulation.

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