Hello Robot Inc

We still have a lot of work in front of us but our dream of home robots that benefit everyone is coming into focus!

The ALS Association is proud to invest $400,000 in groundbreaking research at the University of Pittsburgh to advance Stretch, a robot by Hello Robot, designed to help people with ALS manage everyday tasks. From grabbing a cup of water to picking up items from the floor, Stretch is being fine-tuned to assist people with ALS at every stage of their journey, with the hope of giving them greater independence as the disease progresses. Learn more about this project in this CBS News clip: https://cbsn.ws/405sxJV

We have a few amazing opportunities to intern with Hello Robot this summer. Join an incredible team working to build robots that benefit everyone. For more info: https://lnkd.in/gKttNDcv

We're proud to partner with Hello Robot Inc and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh as they develop this new assistive technology alongside people living with ALS. Advancing technologies like these is key to making ALS livable until we can cure it. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gnPnsYdd

We are thrilled to announce a partnership between Hello Robot Inc, The ALS Association, and University of Pittsburgh researchers to advance the development of Stretch to meet the evolving needs of people living with ALS. The two-year project is funded by a $400,000 investment from the ALS Association, and will focus on working directly with people with ALS and their caregivers to enhance the robot's capabilities, aiming to provide empowerment and assistance on activities of daily living. Learn more about this new partnership here: https://lnkd.in/gnPnsYdd And learn more about Stretch: hello-robot.com

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! Leverage LLM Agents for language-guided autonomy: "Hey Stretch, pick up the toy and put it in the bin". Use Learning from Demonstration to teach Stretch dexterous tasks like opening a cabinet door. It's all open-source, you can download and run Stretch AI today. Join the Hello Robot community creating smarter, more capable robots for real-world tasks. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ee4tGsSB

I'd like to introduce what I've been working on the last few months at Hello Robot Inc: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration. The goal is to allow researchers and developers to quickly build and deploy AI-enabled robot applications. Stretch AI is designed so that you can easily get started and try it out on your robot. It supports multiple LLMs, from open-source models like Qwen to OpenAI. You can even do voice control of the robot, talk to it, and have it clean up your floor! The codebase: https://lnkd.in/eyDU_3Hk Blog post with some details: https://lnkd.in/eaSzMAtG more on other socials: Twitter/X: https://lnkd.in/e3Pg9ubk Bluesky: https://lnkd.in/e-Q2SFKb

Open-source AI enabled home robot with voice chat. Tell it what to do and it will try to clean up your home for you. This is locally running Qwen2.5 on my desktop. No need to send information from your home to the cloud.

A big congratulations to the team working with Stretch at Ai2 PRIOR, who won Best Mobile Manipulation Paper at #IROS2024 for their work on Harmonic Mobile Manipulation, then followed up by winning joint Outstanding Paper at #CoRL2024 for Poliformer - a transformer-based policy trained using RL at scale in simulation. If you haven't seen these impressive papers yet, check them out below! Harmonic Mobile Manipulation - https://lnkd.in/g6xPmnyS Poliformer: Scaling On-Policy RL with Transformers Results in Masterful Navigators - poliformer.allen.ai Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research (PRIOR) group at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence - prior.allenai.org

Humanoid robots are cool and all, but for help in the home, right now, you need a robot that's simple, affordable and versatile. (Also, one that won't intimidate you into avoiding it.) In this conversation with Charlie Kemp of Hello Robot Inc, we talked about all he's learned over years of work on Stretch, an assistive robot that has been used to farm tomatoes, do physical therapy, help immobile people play with kids, and even scratch an itch. (Kemp has also used the Stretch to remotely feed his cat.) We talked about finding the sweet spot where affordability, user-friendliness and usefulness meet, what users have taught robot-makers, and a lot of other things.