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Stretch at Memphis

Stretch is Boston Dynamics' commercial warehouse robot: a vacuum-gripper arm mounted on an omnidirectional wheeled base, designed for truck and container unloading and case handling at roughly 800 boxes per hour (cases up to 50 lb). It has been available for commercial purchase since 2023 and is recorded at commercial maturity, with verified customers including DHL Supply Chain (a $15 million pre-order and the first commercial deployment), Performance Team (a Maersk company), Gap, H&M, NFI ($10 million), and Otto Group (20-plus facilities). It is distinct from Boston Dynamics' Spot quadruped and Atlas humanoid (see boston-dynamics-atlas), sharing only the manufacturer.

Stretch by Boston Dynamics · Operated by Boston Dynamics · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Warehouse & Logistics Robotics

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Footage

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics' footage of its Stretch robot autonomously unloading floor-to-ceiling boxes from a trailer onto a conveyor at a Gap facility. Facility-bounded case-handling autonomy inside a mapped dock and warehouse, not open-world.

Boston Dynamics Stretch case-handling robot deployed at DHL Supply Chain warehouse in Memphis, TN. Unloading trailers autonomously.

Key facts

Fleet
Boston Dynamics Stretch case-handling robot
Operator
DHL Supply Chain
Coverage
Memphis, TN
Use Case
Unloading trailers autonomously
Technology
AMR

Safety record

No incidents on record for Stretch at Memphis.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier
Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-07-10
Model
Stretch
Company
Boston Dynamics
Location
United States/Tennessee/Memphis
Operator
Boston Dynamics
Status
operational
Operator type
customer deployed
ID
a08b9fe3-eb03-4c4a-9afe-4f5b12df69ca

Timeline

  1. Jun 2026
    created
  2. Jul 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Stretch operates in Memphis. Explore the full verified map:

Sources (2)

  1. https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/
  2. https://www.dhl.com/us-en/home/press/press-archive/2023/dhl-supply-chain-achieves-first-commercial-deployment-of-boston-dynamics-stretch-robot.html
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-10

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: amr

Sources by quality tier

2
unclassified
Unclassified source

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Common questions

What is the Stretch deployment at Memphis?
Stretch, built by Boston Dynamics, is recorded as a deployment at Memphis on the DEPLOY registry. Boston Dynamics operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Stretch at Memphis?
Boston Dynamics, the manufacturer of Stretch, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
Have there been incidents at the Stretch deployment at Memphis?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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