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Stretch 3 is here, and it’s our best robot yet! Collect real world data. Explore tasks with real users. Create real impact. Learn more: hello-robot.com
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We’re thrilled to welcome our newest Hello Robot team member - Chris Paxton!
If you’re following Stretch, you may already know Chris’s work on OVMM or OK, Robot. Chris will lead our Embodied AI efforts, critical to our mission to get robots helping people in the real world.
Some personal news: I’m excited to be joining Hello Robot, to lead their Embodied AI effort!
For years now, I’ve been a passionate supporter of their vision of affordable, useful robots that can help people out with their day-to-day lives. I’ve previously worked at FAIR, part of Meta, and at NVIDIA, in both cases leading research on robot learning and planning for manipulation, with a particular focus on generalization, so that robot skills will work outside of the specific context they were trained on.
My focus on these problems has always been motivated by my belief that we can make robots into the exact sort of useful, general-purpose assistants that Hello Robot envisions. Now seems like the time to make that a reality. Excited for what the next year will bring!
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At Hello Robot our north star is to build robots that improve life for everyone. We're excited to announce that we have received a $2.5M award from the NIH to advance robot assistance for older adults with mobility and mild cognitive impairments
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Stretch is now available in @GazeboSim! In collaboration with @PickNikRobotics, we now have Gazebo support for both @rosorg Melodic and Noetic, and a quickstart demo with MoveIt. See more: forum.hello-robot.com/t/212
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Robots should provide meaningful assistance to people. How? Check out this recent Stanford talk by Hello Robot co-founder and CEO Dr. Aaron Edsinger
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We still have a lot of work in front of us but our dream of home robots that benefit everyone is coming into focus!
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“How do you make that person feel like what they’re contributing is important and worthwhile? I saw Stretch being able to tap into that. That’s huge.”
Discover how our research will help robots bring empowerment to the lives of people with disabilities.
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Introducing Stretch, a new kind of robot
Buy the research edition today for $17,950
hello-robot.com
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Great to see Stretch described as "Astounding in its potential" in this recent Seattle Times piece. We couldn't agree more!
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We’re thrilled to be working with @MetaAI to advance embodied AI for home robots!
The future of robot butlers starts with mobile manipulation.
We’re announcing the NeurIPS 2023 Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge!
- Full robot stack ✅
- Parallel sim and real evaluation ✅
- No robot required ✅👀
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Our fantastic intern V Nguyen, an OT doctoral candidate from Pacific University, has been exploring how mobile manipulator robots like Stretch can help increase independence in persons with disabilities like @Robots4Humanity's Henry Evans. Check it out!
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ALT Quadriplegic patient Henry Evans feeds himself using the Stretch robot.
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We are thrilled to be among the recipients of the 2021 #RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards!
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More on our recent award with the NIH in the Champaign News Gazette!
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We’re very excited to be nominated for Best ROS Robot, and in great company!
Presenting the 2021 Best #ROS #Robot nominees for the 2nd ROS Awards: buff.ly/3xfty1k
🤖 #Stretch, by @hellorobotinc
🤖 #TurtleBot, by @meloneewise & Tully Foote @willowgarage)
🤖 #TurtleBot3, by @ROBOTIS
The winner will be announced at #ROSDevDay on June 19th!
#GoROS
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Thanks to everyone who came to visit us at #IROS2023 in Detroit! Stretch got to meet so many fantastic robotics researchers. Hope to see some of you soon at CORL!
ALT Hello Robot demonstration at IROS 2024 - picking up a paperclip
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Check out the work with Stretch by Professor Wendy Rogers and team at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as featured in this local TV news report.
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Join us next week in Kyoto for #ROSCon2022! Stop by the Hello Robot booth October 19-21 to chat about the future of mobile manipulation, and take Stretch for a test drive!
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Occupational therapist V Nguyen teamed up with @Robots4Humanity's Henry and Jane Evans to explore how mobile manipulators like Stretch could increase independence for persons with disabilities! Check it out here:
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ALT Robot-assisted feeding using Stretch
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If you missed it in person, our presentation from #ICRA2022 is available online - The Design of Stretch, A Compact, Lightweight, Mobile Manipulator for Human Environments
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@hellorobotinc is proud to be a sponsor of
@HRI_2021. Chat with our engineers at our virtual booth, and catch our industry talk on March 9 at 1:30PST!
#hri
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July Community News:
🎆 Arranging objects using LLMs
🎆 Stretch visits seniors
🎆 Live leaderboard for OVMM challenge - win a Stretch!
🎆 Learning manipulation quickly in the real world
🎆 Best Student Paper at RSS - teach a robot to FISH!
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One day left of #ICRA2023 - if you haven’t yet seen Stretch in action, make sure to stop by the Hello Robot booth in the exhibition hall!
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[1/2] We love seeing Stretch in Assistive Gym 1.0! Created by Zackory Erickson at @GTrobotics, Assistive Gym is a simulated playground where robots learn to help people.
Link: github.com/Healthcare-Roboti…
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Great to see Hello Robot recognized for an Silicon Valley Robotics Innovation Award for "outstanding early stage technology or product developed recently that will create an impact in the robotics industry"!
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A huge thanks to everyone who attended and shared at our first ever #StretchSocial last week! With 64 fantastic participants from innovative startups, universities, and companies, the future of mobile cobots is bright!
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What's new in the Stretch community?
😎 Stretch in MuJoCo!
😎 Customizing a web-based teleop interface
😎 Still time to win your own Stretch with the OVMM Challenge
😎 Reducing search time with sound Direction of Arrival
😎 ROS 2 with Stretch update!
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[2/2] The simulation even runs in a web browser! This Colab notebook shows Stretch in a realistic environment using iGibson.
Link: colab.research.google.com/dr…
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Fantastic article in the Washington Post by @PeterAdamsPhoto featuring Stretch and the inspirational Henry Evans - a window into a future where mobile manipulators can provide real help to those in need.
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Happy to provide you with your new office buddy :) We’re excited to be working with @PickNikRobotics!
Unexpected perk of working from home: Sometimes if you're lucky, a robot shows up at your door.
@hellorobotinc @PickNikRobotics
ALT A box presumably containing a robot on my front porch.
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"Stretch is a compact, lightweight, and low-cost mobile robot equipped with an innovative telescoping arm. It's designed for researchers developing robot applications to help people in homes and workplaces", now featured in the @robotsapp Robots Guide
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Congratulations to the @HumanFusions team on reaching the semifinals of the Avatar @XPrize competition! See how Stretch is being used to develop the future of healthcare robotics:
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@CWRUBME @UCLAengineering @cmuneurosci @CLE_State @UWyonews #neuroreality
ALT Stretch robot remote teleoperated in virtual reality
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Happy #WorldMoveItDay2021! Check out this awesome video by David Lu of @PickNikRobotics on using MoveIt for navigation of differential drive robots like Stretch!
What to do on #WorldMoveItDay2021 when all you want to think about is navigation.
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Hello Robot has just posted some great summer 2023 internship opportunities. Apply now!
hello-robot.com/careers
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We love seeing Stretch bringing nursing and engineering together at U. Mass. Amherst and the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation!
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Join Hello Robot’s Vy Nguyen today at #RSE2023, speaking about using mobile manipulators to enable independence for persons with disabilities!
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What's new in the Stretch community?
🍁 Stretch empowers persons with disabilities - @IEEESpectrum
🍁 Language-guided manipulation goes mobile!
🍁 ForceSight vision transformer
🍁 Superhuman imitation learning
🍁 Proactive robots anticipate user needs
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Hello Robot Community news!
🤖 Head-worn Assistive Teleoperation @CMU_Robotics
🤖#EmbodiedAI @ai_habitat Challenge at @CVPR
🤖@nyuniversity teach a robot to FISH
🤖Semantic navigation from @MetaAI and @CMU_Robotics
🤖@TechSAgeRERC pitch competition!
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A huge thanks to all the people who made this research possible, especially Prof. Wendy Rogers from @AHSIllinois, @mayacakmak from @uwcse, @marucabrera27, @TapoBhat, and of course Henry and Jane Evans!
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"Hello World" - Stretch
Stretch's unique precision allows it to autonomously write cleanly on a white board
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Congratulations to researchers at @UCIrvine
and @UCsand, who received a $1M NSF grant to use Stretch to develop improved telepresence robots for children with medical conditions and disabilities
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@veronicanewhart @LaurelRiek
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Our co-founder, Charlie Kemp, shares more details about the autonomy demos that ship with Stretch on Hello Robot's open forum
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Fascinating work as always from @dougweberlab - and a pretty good-looking robot in the background!
Our latest faculty research video explores how humans can interact with machines in entirely new ways: piped.video/ROHwnBSCRtg @dougweberlab @cmuneurosci #brain
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Join us next week in Philadelphia for #ICRA2022! Stop by the Hello Robot booth May 24-26 to chat about the future of mobile manipulation, and take Stretch for a test drive!
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May Community News:
🛠 @MetaAI integrate semantics and scene geometry
🛠 Live navigation workshop!
🛠 #EmbodiedAI workshop @CVPR
🛠 Making Stretch move like a human @GeorgiaTech and @SeoulNatlUni
🛠 Stretch at @HFES symposium and Robotics Summit
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Driving a robot with a brain-computer interface? @Avanade share their experience combining @NextMind with Stretch!
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AI-CARING is a new NSF-funded institute developing intelligent and collaborative AI systems that support aging adults and their caregivers. Hello Robot is proud to be an industry partner of this fascinating work! ai-caring.org/
ALT AI-CARING institute logo
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June Community News:
🌞 Project-based courses with Stretch!
🌞 Win a robot with the OVMM Challenge at @NeurIPSConf
🌞 HomeRobot benchmark for testing embodied agents
🌞 SLURP identifies mystery liquids
🌞 Learning representations from human videos
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Check out Stretch's open-source tool share here
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“I felt immediately that Stretch is very different. It’s safe and lightweight, you can probably put it in the backseat of a car. I got my refurbished PR2 for $180,000. For that, with Stretch I could have 10!”
—Maya Cakmak,
@UW
Robotics startup @hellorobotinc has come out of stealth with a beautifully simple, clever #robot design
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Interested in a sneak-peek at what people have been up to with Stretch? Slides from our first #StretchSocial are now available here: drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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April Community News:
⚙️ @CMU_robotics & @MetaAI teach robots with human videos
⚙️ Live video workshops with Stretch!
⚙️ New pick-and-place benchmark @allen_ai
⚙️ Custom teleop interfaces
@uwcse
⚙️ Open-source autonomy demo @SpauldingRehab
⚙️ And more!
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Tune in today to see Stretch featured in Dr Wendy Rogers talk about advancing the mobility of older adults
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Visiting the International Symposium on Medical Robotics in Atlanta this week? Drop by the @hellorobotinc booth to get a hands-on demo of Stretch! #ISMR2023
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Stretch uses its open source Dry Erase Holder tool to hold the dry erase marker. The tool has rubber bands, allowing for compliant interaction between the marker and a white board
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"A Microsoft developer, Sidh, has cerebral palsy, and while Sidh has no trouble writing code with his toes, there are some everyday tasks—like getting a drink of water—that he needs help with."
We're so excited to have Sidh working with Stretch!
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Important work by Professor Wendy Rogers and Stretch at UIUC!
storied.illinois.edu/mckechn…!
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ICYMI: cool research at CMU features Stretch learning to complete real-world manipulation tasks from only a single video of a human completing each task, followed by autonomous exploration. Check it out!
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Stretch's compliant gripper is both simple and remarkably capable at grasping the everyday objects people care about
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Stretch learns liquid identification. Interesting work by the RIVeR lab at Northeastern!
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Stretch has an open-source tool interface to help researchers experiment with real-world applications. Existing tools include a 3 DOF wrist, a gripper, a phone holder, a marker holder, a swiffer holder, and cup holder.
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Join Hello Robot at the RIA Robotics Week. We'll be participating in the Robotics Startup Showcase (Weds. Sept. 9 at 10am PDT) and the Future of Robotics Roundtable (Thursday Sept. 10 at 7am PDT). Registration is free. More info at: robotics.org/robotics/ria-ro…
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Going to the @HCRoboticsForum this week? Catch the keynote presentation Tuesday by Hello Robot co-founder and CTO Charlie Kemp, then stop by booth #436 to see Stretch in action!
More> bit.ly/3P6t9ax
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