Robot model
Retriever
Autonomous mobile tray table for home use.
- Manufacturer
- Labrador Systems
- Form factor
- service
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 1
- Website
- labradorsystems.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Retriever, a service by Labrador Systems (commercial): 1 verified deployment on record. 3 sources back the record.
Overview
Autonomous mobile tray table for home use. Navigates to preset locations delivering items to older adults or people with mobility limitations. Semi-autonomous with user-directed destinations.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Sources on file
- View all sources →
Key facts
Product (company-claimed)
First deployment (reported, unconfirmed)
Deck heights (company-claimed)
Trays and clearance (company-claimed)
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not disclosed
- Price
- $2K (manufacturer target)as of 2022-01-04
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
One-time purchase
$1,500 USDmanufacturer targetas of 2022-01-04
Source: TechCrunch — Labrador set to deliver a robotic helping hand
Monthly subscription
$99 - $149 USDmanufacturer targetas of 2022-01-04
Source: TechCrunch — Labrador set to deliver a robotic helping hand
Price status: actual-sale-price = real published price at time of sale; manufacturer-target = vendor target, not yet realized; analyst-estimate = third-party projection, not a vendor figure; not-announced = no price on record.
Prices verified as of Jan 4, 2022
Deployments (1)
- Retriever at San Franciscooperational
Labrador Retriever home pilot program for older adults and people with disabilities in California.
Retriever on the deployment map
View the global mapWhere Retriever is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Nationwide, Labrador Systems partner to pilot new generation of...
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Introducing the Labrador Retriever Robot at CES 2022
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
at San Francisco
- Price point recorded: $1,500Jan 4, 2022
Manufacturer target
Safety record
No incidents on record for Retriever.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (3)
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Retriever.
Companies (1)
Robots and products (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: service
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Retriever.Recent coverage
Retriever in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Retriever from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Labrador Previews New Solutions for Home Health at CES 2023
Labrador Systems today returned to CES® presenting new demonstrations of its award-winning personal robot at two locations within the Venetian Expo. The Labrador® Retriever will…
Labrador Systems Introduces a New Generation of Assistive Robots
Labrador Systems introduced its personal assistive robots, funded by SOSV/HAX, Amazon's Alexa Fund, and iRobot Ventures.
The Top 10 Robotics Stories of 2022
It’s not often that we see a new autonomous home robot with a compelling use case. But this year, Labrador Systems introduced Retriever, a semi-autonomous mobile table that can…
Labrador Systems deploys its first assistive elder-care robots
Labrador Systems deployed its first Retriever Pro assistive robots for elderly care, bringing assistive freedom to people with mobility limitations.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/labrador-retriever.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/5b1407d7-20cf-4c21-b93a-0143185a024d
- Revision history: /models/labrador-retriever/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Retriever draws attention at the 37th percentile but verifies reality at the 11th percentile among service robots. Hype Gap +26.1, 8th widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited independent press and video coverage to date.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 21, 2026