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What an amazing experience for Hello Robot to be invited to demo Stretch 3 at the TechWomen program orientation at UC Berkeley, that connects emerging women leaders in STEM from Africa, Central & South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East with U.S. mentors and companies.🤖

Researchers at Princeton are pairing VR with robotics to make it happen, blending digital interactions with physical delivery. Imagine selecting a soda with a gesture and watch it appear on your desk, all powered by a robot hidden from view.

Learn more: www.wevolver.com/article/eras...

Robot-led rehab is showing promise for people with Parkinson’s. 🤖🧑‍⚕️ A pilot study with exercise specialists found it can boost consistency & engagement, while feedback highlights the need for more natural responses & easier use. #Robotics #Healthcare
www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...

Stretch Community News - September 2025 — Hello Robot Senior care, invisible delivery robots, eFlesh magnetic tactile sensing, and so much more!

Back to School and back with new work from the Hello Robot Community!

👩‍🏫 Teaching a robots
📝 Assisting in senior living
👨‍🏫 Invisible robots deliver
📝 Learning from failures
👩‍🏫 Evaluating memory
📝 Magnetic touch
👨‍🏫 Parkinson's rehab

💻 To learn more, check out: hello-robot.com/community-up...

We were excited to welcome the auli.tech team along with Henry and Jane Evans, to Hello Robot HQ! We explored using Cato to operate the Stretch robot as part of Hello Robot’s effort towards greater accessibility with assistive input devices. We are grateful for their invaluable insights!

A robotics activist's remarkable crusade Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn't prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of ada...

Honored to be featured with our friend Henry Evans. After a stroke 22 yrs ago, Henry became a powerful advocate for adaptive robotics. Watch how Stretch 3 helps him eat, play, & connect with family, showing the power of human-centered tech to restore independence. www.cbsnews.com/video/a-robo...

Real-World Robot Narration Abstract

How can robots better communicate what they “see” and “do”? This study, introduces RONAR, an LLM-powered system that translates real-world robot experiences into natural, human-readable narratives, boosting transparency, and improving collaboration with humans. 🤖
sites.google.com/view/real-wo...

How do you build a robot that can open unfamiliar objects in new places? This study put mobile manipulation systems through 100+ real-world tests and found that perception, not precision, is the real challenge.🤖

Learn more: arjung128.github.io/opening-arti...
Watch full video: youtu.be/QcbMnEXd70Q

Why Robots That Curse May Be More Relatable In a world where robots are polite to a fault, could cursing robots be the breath of fresh air we need? A study at Oregon State University found that swearing robots can enhance humor and social close...

Can swearing make robots more relatable? Turns out yes! A new study from Oregon State found that when robots use light profanity after messing up, people view them as more human and even funny, without losing trust or credibility. 🤖
spectrum.ieee.org/cursing-soci...
#Robotics #SocialRobots

Could robots learn just by watching videos?

Insert VidBot: a new approach that teaches robots how to perform real-world tasks by learning from everyday human videos. No manual training, no specific demos, just smart, scalable learning from the internet.

🤖https://hanzhic.github.io/vidbot-project/

We had an incredible time showcasing everything Stretch 3 is capable of at the AI for Good Summit! It was a pleasure to be joined by the talented team from the NYU GRAIL lab, who demonstrated their cutting-edge work on Robot Utility Models.
learn more at: robotutilitymodels.com #AiforGood #robots

Stretch 3 went on an adventure to the Portland Art Museum! | Hello Robot Inc Stretch 3 went on an adventure to the Portland Art Museum! Thanks to Stretch’s moving tablet and mobility, our friend Henry was able to explore the galleries from his home. Using teleoperation, Henry ...

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Stretch 3 went on an adventure to the Portland Art Museum! Thanks to Stretch’s moving tablet and mobility, our friend Henry was able to explore the the museum just like he was there in person. Big thanks to the museum’s accessibility team for making it such a welcoming and meaningful day!

The Hello Robot team is ready to go at the AI for Good Global Summit! Excited to connect with innovators from around the world and share how Hello Robot is building useful, inclusive robots that make a real difference. Can’t wait to get underway! #AIforGood #HelloRobot

Kicking off Summer with new work in the Hello Robot Community!
🎆 Embodied question answering
🎆 Robot profanity?!
🎆 End-to-end drawer and cabinet opening
🎆 Estimating fruit ripeness
🎆 Robotic tutor to help train nurses
🎆 New Stretch MuJoCo release!

Learn more! hello-robot.com/community-up...

Hello Robot is heading to Geneva for the AI for Good Global Summit! As the leading UN platform for AI, this summit brings together innovators, researchers, and changemakers to explore how AI can tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. Come visit us or watch online! aiforgood.itu.int/summit25

YouTube video by CMU Robotics Institute RI Seminar: Charlie Kemp : Human-scale mobile manipulators happily used in homes?

What will it take to put robots in homes? Hello Robot cofounder and CTO Dr. Charlie Kemp shared some insights with students at Carnegie Mellon, exploring the technical and human-centered challenges of bringing robots into personal spaces.

▶️Watch the full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQT7...

Soaking up the sun at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Los Angeles this weekend? Stop by the Hello Robot booth to say hi and get a hands on look at Stretch! Hope to see you there 😎 roboticsconference.org

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer Scott and Mark Learn to...LIVE | KEY040

What an incredible moment for Stretch! Our Stretch 3 robot joined Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman onstage at Microsoft Build 2025 for a live demo, autonomously fetching a drink to highlight the exciting potential of cutting-edge AI models and robotics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIFD...

GitHub - hello-robot/stretch_mujoco: This library provides a simulation stack for Stretch, built on MuJoCo. This library provides a simulation stack for Stretch, built on MuJoCo. - hello-robot/stretch_mujoco

Try it in Google Colab: colab.research.google.com/github/hello...
Or run it locally: github.com/hello-robot/...

🚀Stretch MuJoCo v0.5 is released! It's a high-fidelity simulation of Stretch 3. Here’s what's new:

• ROS2 and Python libraries
• RGB-D and Lidar sensors
• 100s of kitchen-style environments
• Runs on Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows, or online on Google Colab

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer Scott and Mark Learn to...LIVE | KEY040

For the finale, @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I solved a real-world problem by gaffer taping a Surface Laptop to a @hellorobot.bsky.social (thanks for the loner!) and taught it to get me a Diet Coke live on stage youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...

Stretch Community News - April 2025 — Hello Robot Dynamic semantic mapping, servoing with vision models, zero-shot manipulation from RGB video, tons of HRI, and more!

New work from the Hello Robot community this spring:
🌷 Open-source dynamic semantic mapping
🌷 Servoing with Vision Models
🌷 Zero-shot manipulation from RGB human videos
🌷 Tons of HRI research
🌷 New Software Drop with Firebase networking

And more! Check it out: hello-robot.com/community-up...

We’re deeply honored to be recognized with the inaugural Robots for Good award at the 2025 Robotics Summit. Our sincere thanks to the Hello Robot team and to our worldwide user community for helping make this possible!

Thank you to everyone who came out to meet with us at the Human-Robot Interaction Conference last week!! See you next year in Edinburgh!

Screenshot of a forum post detailing new features and bug fixes for the software that runs on Stretch robots.

Software drop for Stretch!

- Tutorial for React/ROS2 in the web interface
- Smoother control in dex teleop
- Easier Stretch AI installation
- Better Nav2 mapping

Stretch Community News - February 2025 — Hello Robot Gazebo Harmonic, Stretch AI, Dynamic memory, and more!

What's new in the Stretch community this month?

❄️ Gazebo Harmonic
❄️ Dynamic semantic maps for open-vocabulary tasks
❄️ Natural-language narration of robot experiences
❄️ Implicit human-robot communication

And more! Follow the link below for more details:

hello-robot.com/community-up...

Selective Perception: Learning Concise State Descriptions for Language Model Actors It is increasingly common for large language models (LLMs) to be applied as actors in sequential decision making problems in embodied domains such as robotics and games, due to their general world kno...

Way back in 2023, before multimodal foundation models were a thing, we wanted to apply language agents to visual domains. One idea was to use vision models to extract perceptual features and put them into text templates. But “a picture is worth 1000 words” — a big context! Can be slow, distracting.

We are thrilled to announce a partnership between Hello Robot, the ALS Association (@alsassociation.bsky.social), and University of Pittsburgh researchers to advance the development of Stretch to meet the evolving needs of people living with ALS.

Learn more: hello-robot.com/press-release-als-2024

Introducing Stretch AI - a new open-source suite of tools, tutorials, and reference code to explore and build AI-enabled home robot applications with Stretch 3! Check it out at github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai and learn more from @cpaxton.bsky.social below!