Stretch sensing gripper
2025 brochure; replacement part number not specified
Boston Dynamics ↗Boston Dynamics Stretch
Separate Stretch’s unloading envelope from its newer case-picking workflow, and distinguish a customer-reported rate from a fleet expansion plan.
DROID RESEARCH · SOURCES CHECKED
Does an unloading specification also describe the case-picking system?
No. Boston Dynamics now describes case picking with Orbit-based WMS integration. Confirm the quoted configuration and release; the 2025 unloading brochure is not a specification for every current workflow.
Boston Dynamics ↗Boston Dynamics ↗Published conditions and unresolved fields
These are supplier statements, not independently measured performance. The selected configuration and full trial conditions determine applicability.
| Field | Published value | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum case weight | 50 lb / 23 kg | Manufacturer’s rounded unit pair; case weight, not pallet payload. Boston Dynamics ↗ |
| Operating temperature | 41–113 °F / 5–45 °C | 2025 unloading brochure; validate the delivered configuration and dock extremes. Boston Dynamics ↗ |
| Brochure unloading rate | 600–800 cases/hour | Supplier range; freight mix and full-shift denominator not specified. Boston Dynamics ↗ |
| Current case-picking application | Case handling and palletized order building | The application page describes WMS connection through Orbit; installed release remains to confirm. Boston Dynamics ↗ |
| Automated dimensional verdict | Not established in reviewed sources | The brochure’s surface-length wording is not treated as an axis-by-axis acceptance rule in our screener. Evidence status: unknown |
| Configured price | Not established in reviewed sources | No dated, scoped current quote established. Include conveyor and integration responsibilities. Evidence status: unknown |
Implications for the receiving workflow
Droid’s analysis and proposed checks:
- Split the request for proposal by task: emptying a floor-loaded trailer and building an outbound order have different acceptance tests. A shared product name does not define the complete installation.
- Measure accepted cases at the receiving endpoint. A fast arm can still wait for scans, conveyor recovery or pallet changes; timestamp those waits separately.
- Record the exact hardware, firmware and application package tested. A later product page cannot certify what an earlier delivered unit can do.
Documented components and connected systems
Included components and downstream systems are labeled separately. These relationships are not a complete bill of materials or proof of replaceability.
Dated evidence to inspect
- DHL unloading operations — 2025-05-13; customer reported operations.
- DHL expansion MOU — 2025-05-13; announced plan.
Keep announced plans separate from installed operations, and keep a reported integration separate from measured shift results.
Still to establish
- Delivered revision and application entitlement
- Representative carton handling and exception frequency
- Conveyor model, controls and fault ownership
- Current all-in price and staffing scope
What the pilot must prove
- Trial representative damaged, occluded and mixed cases.
- Log setup, assistance, recharge and downstream stoppages.
- Validate the required case-picking release separately.
- Agree on accepted receiving output and recovery responsibility.
Source record
- Stretch case picking ↗Boston Dynamics · Current undated application page; release and required configuration unresolved · Checked 2026-11-10
- Stretch brochure, 2025 ↗Boston Dynamics · ©2025; unloading configuration; URL folder is not the publication year · Checked 2026-11-10
- DHL–Boston Dynamics expansion MOU ↗DHL Group · May 13, 2025; reported unloading operations and prospective expansion · Checked 2026-11-10
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