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Big step for rehab robotics: study with @EmoryUniversity & @GeorgiaTech shows how Stretch can guide Parkinson’s patients through PT exercises with results comparable to human-led sessions, and even improve balance after just one session. 🤖 Learn more: mdpi.com/1424-8220/26/4…

Great conversation on the ATDev Podcast with our own V Nguyễn on human-centered design, “solutioneering,” and how clinicians help turn robotics research into real-world impact. A must-listen for anyone interested in assistive tech and social good. 🤖 youtube.com/watch?v=YKUTza…

Last night, @Unusual_VC & @roboto_ai hosted our 2nd dinner on Scaling Reliability in High-Stakes Robotics🤖 From surgical robots to autonomous forklifts, industrial arms to flying taxis, we saw different domains but the same reality: As robots scale from pilots → fleets, the long tail of edge cases + operational complexity become the problem. We dug into: 1️⃣ End-to-end learning in regulated, safety-critical systems 2️⃣ Detecting out-of-distribution events at massive scale 3️⃣ How connectivity tailwinds (e.g., Starlink) are unlocking reliable edge data Grateful to the incredible group of robotics leaders who made it such a rich conversation.

New research from Aalto University introduces EGG, a framework that helps robots connect what they see with what happens, linking objects to real-world actions. A big step toward smarter, more intuitive autonomy 🤖🧠🚀 Learn more: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18697

New research from Peking University introduces LagMemo, a language-grounded 3D memory that helps robots remember and navigate complex spaces while handling multi-goal, open-vocabulary tasks. Big step toward more capable embodied AI in the real world! 🤖weekgoodday.github.io/lagmemo/

New research: Fast-SmartWay enables robots to follow language instructions and navigate new environments without panoramas or multi-stage pipelines. Great step toward faster, more practical vision-language navigation in embodied AI. 🤖arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00933

Great new work from @KhalifaUni on closed-loop plant disease detection and treatment using vision-language perception and AI planning. Excited to see Stretch supporting precision agriculture research! 🌱🤖 Learn More: scitepress.org/Papers/2025/13…

Our new community newsletter features exciting work! 🥂 Testing socially assistive robots ✨ LagMemo visual navigation system 🥂 Event-Grounding Graph ✨ Fast-SmartWay: zero-shot visual-language navigation 🥂 Detecting and treating crop diseases 😍hello-robot.com/community-upda…

As we step into 2026, we’re grateful for the community, collaborators, and researchers who make our work possible. Here’s to continued innovation, thoughtful collaboration, and building robots that make a real-world impact. Happy New Year from all of us at Hello Robot!

As an exciting year comes to a close, we want to say thank you to our Hello Robot community. We’re proud of what we've built, and the new ideas, continued innovation, and progress toward making robots more capable, accessible, and helpful in everyday settings. Happy Holidays!🤖🎄

So happy to present at the Mobility For Everyone (MOVE) Center at @KSUresearch this week. Huge thanks to Dr. Ayse Tekes for the invitation and for leading impactful work in assistive and inclusive technology. We love showing how Stretch 3 makes a difference in real life!

Hello Robot - Stretch 3 - Future Vision - The Robots are Coming Home Meet Stretch 3 by Hello Robot, a popular open-source robot that heralds a future where versatile robots are in millions of homes. Video source: @hellorobotinc #robotics #tech #engineering #innovation #robot -------------------------------- Stay ahead of the curve! Follow us now on our WhatsApp (wevlv.co/wevolver-whats…) and Telegram (wevlv.co/3sJlFn5) channels and stay updated about the cutting edge.

Using Stretch 3, Reality Capture is an automated indoor scanning system that collects images on its own, even in cluttered spaces, achieving 92% alignment in cluttered areas and 98% in open rooms. High-quality 3D models, less manual work, more possibility. youtube.com/watch?v=FXQSay…

Clear communication is key for safe, comfortable human-robot interaction. This new work introduces CoRI, a pipeline that turns a robot’s motion plan and visual perception into simple, natural-language explanations of what it’s about to do. Learn more: cori-phri.github.io

Love seeing Stretch in action! Our friends from CNBEST took Stretch 3 to the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems last month to demo it's capabilities. It featured keynote speeches, cutting-edge technical sessions, and dynamic networking opportunities.

While finding missing or misplaced items may be second nature to humans, it proves to be a major challenge for robots. This study tackles that issue with a new open-vocabulary search and retrieval framework. ▶️autonomousrobots.nl/assets/images/…

Happy Holidays from Hello Robot! 🦃DynaMem - dynamic spatio-semantic memory 🌲Automated 3D reconstruction system 🦃Robotics in everyday caregiving 🌲Remote trick or treating with seniors 🦃Event-Grounding Graph framework and so much more! hello-robot.com/community-upda…

Had a fun time handing out candy all day to trick-or-treaters in the @uwcse lobby using our Stretch robot @hellorobotinc! Happy Halloween from @uwrobotics brought to you by the Human-Centered Robotics Lab @UW :)

@Daphne__Chen @uwcse @uwrobotics @UW @mayacakmak Love this! 🤖🍬

Happy Halloween from Hello Robot! "Ice Cream Stretch" was busy passing out candy to seniors at Our Place Social Center, an incredible organization that provides a positive daytime experience for seniors, the disabled, or those who are memory impaired. Stretch 3 was a big hit! 🎃