Auxiliary Robots That Can Be Flexible

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According to foreign media reports, in the past three years, a team led by Dr. Aaron Edsinger, Google’s former head of robotics, has been secretly developing an auxiliary robot, the Hello Robot. Now, this robot has shown its first result from the invisible state-Stretch Research Edition (Stretch Research Edition). The base of Stretch looks like a robot vacuum cleaner, with a pole over one meter mounted on it and a retractable arm in the middle. This arm can move up and down on the pole-"from a height just above the floor to a height much higher than the countertop", extending from the edge of the base to 52 cm.
Since this robot is equipped with a two-wheel electric drive system and all-wheel casters, it can move forward at a speed of 0.6 meters per second. When moving, the gripper at the end of the arm can be kept flush with the base, and can be rotated to perform tasks when needed. Hello Robot said that Stretch is the first mobile manipulator that can be easily operated at home or in the workplace, and can also be transported between project sites on the back of a car. This 141 cm tall and 23 kg auxiliary robot is also equipped with a 3D camera, a laser rangefinder and a built-in computer equipped with Intel Core i5 processing, 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. The head is equipped with a four-channel microphone array and 8-watt stereo speakers and supports volume adjustment. In addition, it has USB, HDMI and Ethernet ports.










The software that the robot runs is open source software, equipped with a Robotic Operating System (Robotic Operating System) interface and a low-level Python hardware interface, and is also set to start automatically. The robot has a large number of installation points and expansion ports for custom modifications, and also comes with an open source library to support 3D printing accessories.


















It is reported that the current price of the extended research version is 17,950 US dollars.

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