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Hello Robot · Research & Education

Hello Robot Stretch 4

Available to order · Ships from US

Orderable directly from Hello Robot, which quotes 2–4 weeks to ship and ships to most countries. No EU distributor is listed, so EU buyers import it themselves.

from US$29,950Stretch 4

Hello Robot list price, excl. shipping, VAT and import duties. Add-ons: docking station US$1,495, on-robot NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX (16 GB) US$2,995, parallel gripper US$1,495, spare battery US$1,495, 3-year warranty US$2,495.

Checked
28.09.2026Source
Made for
Research & education · Home
Where
US · International (direct from Hello Robot)

Overview

An open-source mobile manipulator with an omnidirectional base, a telescoping arm on a vertical lift and a sensor head. It is built for embodied-AI research and for assistive robotics in homes.

Key specs

Height and footprint
160 cm · 45 cm diameter
Weight
46 kg (33 kg with ballast removed for transport)
Arm
Telescoping, 55 cm reach + 6 cm wrist; 8 degrees of freedom plus gripper
Payload
2.5 kg arm extended · 4 kg retracted
Sensors
2 hemispherical 3D lidars, 3 RGB cameras, wrist depth camera, 6 laser-line floor sensors
Compute
Intel NUC 15; optional Jetson Orin NX 16 GB (100 TOPS)
Runtime
Up to 8 h (light CPU load); self-charging with the dock
Software
Open-source ROS 2 and Python SDK

Why it’s in

  • A proven research platform: over a thousand users in 23 countries have used Stretch since 2020, and Hello Robot positions it as a platform for foundation-model developers.
  • Wheeled and slim by design, which its makers argue is safer around people than a humanoid; the arm, lift and base run twice as fast as on Stretch 3.
  • Fully open (ROS 2, Python SDK), with a public price and shipping in weeks.

What bothers us

  • Expensive once equipped: the docking station (US$1,495) and on-robot AI computer (US$2,995) are extra, and the standard warranty is 1 year.
  • Ships from the US with no EU distributor; payment by wire, check or purchase order only, and CE marking is not stated.
  • Out of the box it is mostly human-in-the-loop (teleoperation, mapping, navigation, a grasping demo). Hello Robot plans only 200–300 units at first.