{"id":121054,"date":"2021-03-30T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/boston-dynamics-unveils-stretch-a-new-robot-designed-to-move-boxes-in-warehouses"},"modified":"2021-03-30T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:22:16","slug":"boston-dynamics-unveils-stretch-a-new-robot-designed-to-move-boxes-in-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/boston-dynamics-unveils-stretch-a-new-robot-designed-to-move-boxes-in-warehouses","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boston-dynamics-unveils-stretch-a-new-robot-designed-to-move-boxes-in-warehouses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distribution bots.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Boston Dynamics is best known for its robot dog Spot, a machine designed to work in a range of environments, from offshore oil rigs to deep underground mines. But in recent years, the company has increasingly focused attention on the logistics space, and today is unveiling a new robot with just one application in mind: moving boxes in warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>The robot is called Stretch and looks relatively dull for a Boston Dynamics creation. It\u2019s not modeled after humans or animals, and instead aims to be as practical as possible. It has a square mobile base containing a set of wheels, a \u201cperception mast\u201d with cameras and other sensors, and a huge robotic arm with seven degrees of freedom and a suction pad array on the end that can grab and move boxes up to 23 kilograms (50 lbs) in weight.<\/p>\n<p>What connects Stretch to other Boston Dynamics machines is a focus on mobility. Usually, when automation equipment is installed in warehouses the system is bolted down in one place with a workflow modeled around it. Stretch, by comparison, is designed to slide into any existing workplace where it could be useful loading or unloading goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distribution bots. Boston Dynamics is best known for its robot dog Spot, a machine designed to work in a range of environments, from offshore oil rigs to deep underground mines. But in recent years, the company has increasingly focused attention on the logistics space, and today is unveiling a new robot with just one application [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}