Hello Robot

A US mobile-manipulation robotics company, maker of the lightweight, open-source Stretch robot.

Hello Robot is a US robotics company founded in 2017, with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Martinez, California (which handles manufacturing). CEO Aaron Edsinger previously served as Google's director of robotics and had earlier founded Meka Robotics and other companies; CTO Charlie Kemp was formerly an associate professor at Georgia Tech, researching assistive mobile manipulation. The company has a single product line, Stretch: a differential-drive base with a vertical lift column and a telescoping arm, with few degrees of freedom, light weight, and open-source software, aimed at research, in-home assistance (such as helping someone with limited mobility fetch objects), and enterprise use. It's a common platform for academic work on household mobile manipulation — both OK-Robot and Dobb-E ran their experiments on Stretch. As of September 2026, its website is selling the fourth-generation Stretch 4 for $29,950.

ExampleNYU's OK-Robot combines open-vocabulary detection with a grasping model on a Stretch robot to complete “bring me object X” tasks in real homes.

Also called

Hello Robot Inc.

Related

Hello Robot Stretch · Mobile Manipulation · Mobile Manipulator · OK-Robot · Dobb-E · Household Tasks

Sources

Hello Robot - About
Hello Robot 官网（Stretch 4） (Chinese)

As of

2026-09