Hello Robot · working robot
Stretch 3
The third Stretch: same single-arm mast design, now with a standard dexterous wrist, a gripper camera, a tougher arm and FCC certification, pitched as a general home helper.
- Price
- $24,950Cheaper than 25%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 24.5 kgHeavier than 13%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Stretch 3 is on the market today.
Real-world use
University and industry research labs; assistive-technology users such as a quadriplegic investor who has used Stretch at home since 2024
Maker
Hello RobotCompany · founded 2017 · Martinez, California, United StatesHow it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Stretch 3 is heavier than 13% of the 75 other working & field robots that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Stretch 3 costs less than 25% of the 20 other working & field robots that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, joints, battery.
Public attention
How much public attention Stretch 3 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Mostly controlled by a person with a gamepad or web app, with researchers adding their own autonomous skills.
- Actuators & motors
- Wheeled base with a vertical lift mast and a telescoping horizontal arm
- Hands
- Single gripper on a dexterous wrist, which became standard on Stretch 3 (it was an add-on before)
- Sensors & vision
- Intel RealSense D405 depth camera behind the gripper, plus a second head camera
- Compute
- On-board computer with support for off-board GPU processing
- Materials & build
- Weighs about 24.5 kg; bottom-heavy design meant to be safe around people and light enough to carry
- AI & software
- Open-source platform for researchers; supports teleoperation (including two robots teleoperated as one two-armed system) and autonomy research
- Other details
- FCC certified; more durable arm than Stretch 2.
Lineage
Every Hello Robot machine in order.
Watch Stretch 3
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $24,950$24,950
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- Hello Robot, Martinez, California, United States
- Customers and pilots
- University and industry research labs; assistive-technology users such as a quadriplegic investor who has used Stretch at home since 2024
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Hello Robot moves on to Stretch 4
TechCrunch reported the fourth-generation Stretch at about $30,000, with 200 to 300 units planned for its first run at the Martinez headquarters.
TechCrunch - Stretch 3 launches at $24,950
Hello Robot announced Stretch 3 with a standard dexterous wrist, a gripper camera and FCC certification at roughly the price of a fully optioned Stretch 2.
IEEE Spectrum - TechCrunch on Stretch 3 as a research platform
TechCrunch noted Stretch 3 relies largely on teleoperation and positioned it as a base for home-robot research rather than a consumer product.
TechCrunch
Sources
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