Boston Dynamics Stretch Overview
Boston Dynamics Stretch is a mobile warehouse robot that unloads trailers and containers and picks cases weighing up to 50 pounds at a rate of hundreds of cases an hour.
Key Specifications
Specification | Boston Dynamics Stretch |
Manufacturer | Boston Dynamics |
Model | Stretch |
Category | Mobile robot / Mobile case-handling robot |
Type | Mobile case-handling robot |
Case weight | Up to 50 pounds |
Throughput | Hundreds of cases an hour |
Shifts | Single or multiple shifts on battery |
Programming | None needed per load; decisions made in real time |
Package types | Plain cartons and printed packaging |
Stack condition | Neat or disordered |
Fallen boxes | Detected and recovered without an operator |
Installation | Within existing warehouse infrastructure |
Price | Price on request |
Price available on request. Any price is indicative, not final and may change.
Boston Dynamics Stretch Review Summary
Stretch takes over one of the hardest manual jobs in a warehouse: emptying a trailer stacked floor to ceiling with boxes. It drives into the trailer, picks cases with a vacuum gripper on a robot arm and puts them on a conveyor, at a rate the maker describes as hundreds of cases an hour. It needs no programming for each load, copes with mixed and untidy stacks and picks up boxes that fall. It is installed in existing docks within days. The list of users, which includes DHL, Maersk, Gap and H&M, is its strongest argument. The maker publishes few technical figures.
Pros
Automates a physically hard, injury-prone job
No programming per load
Recovers fallen boxes on its own
Fast installation in existing docks
Used by major logistics companies
Cons
Few published technical figures
50 lb case limit
Who It Is For
Stretch fits distribution centres and logistics providers with a steady flow of floor-loaded trailers or containers of boxed goods.
Full review: Boston Dynamics Stretch Review: Features and Uses of the Trailer Unloading Robot
