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 in Beijing took Stretch to the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems last month to demo it's capabilities. It featured impactful keynote speeches, cutting-edge technical sessions, and dynamic networking opportunities.

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

Learn more: hello-robot.com/community-up...

What an amazing experience for Hello Robot to be invited to demo Stretch 3 at the TechWomen program orientation at UC Berkeley, that connects emerging women leaders in STEM from Africa, Central & South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East with U.S. mentors and companies.🤖

We were excited to welcome the auli.tech team along with Henry and Jane Evans, to Hello Robot HQ! We explored using Cato to operate the Stretch robot as part of Hello Robot’s effort towards greater accessibility with assistive input devices. We are grateful for their invaluable insights!

How do you build a robot that can open unfamiliar objects in new places? This study put mobile manipulation systems through 100+ real-world tests and found that perception, not precision, is the real challenge.🤖

Learn more: arjung128.github.io/opening-arti...
Watch full video: youtu.be/QcbMnEXd70Q

Could robots learn just by watching videos?

Insert VidBot: a new approach that teaches robots how to perform real-world tasks by learning from everyday human videos. No manual training, no specific demos, just smart, scalable learning from the internet.

🤖https://hanzhic.github.io/vidbot-project/

We had an incredible time showcasing everything Stretch 3 is capable of at the AI for Good Summit! It was a pleasure to be joined by the talented team from the NYU GRAIL lab, who demonstrated their cutting-edge work on Robot Utility Models.
learn more at: robotutilitymodels.com #AiforGood #robots

🚀Stretch MuJoCo v0.5 is released! It's a high-fidelity simulation of Stretch 3. Here’s what's new:

• ROS2 and Python libraries
• RGB-D and Lidar sensors
• 100s of kitchen-style environments
• Runs on Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows, or online on Google Colab

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! Check it out at github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai and learn more from @cpaxton.bsky.social below!