Boston Dynamics · legged machine
Handle
An R&D robot with two wheeled legs and two arms that could carry objects, travel about 25 km per charge and jump onto tables. It led to the 2019 logistics Handle and later Stretch.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 200 cmTaller than 64%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 14.5 km/hFaster than 95%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Combined two balancing legs ending in wheels with dynamic control, letting a 2 m robot roll at about 14.5 km/h and jump 1.2 m.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2017-02
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Boston DynamicsCompany · founded 1992 · Waltham, Massachusetts, United StatesOwned by Hyundai Motor Group since June 2021 (80% stake bought from SoftBank for about $880M; SoftBank kept about 20%).
How it stacks up
Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Handle is taller than 64% of the 22 other legged & novel that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Handle is faster than 95% of the 19 other legged & novel that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Handle has more joints than 31% of the 16 other legged & novel that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheel-legs · 10 joints
- How it runs
- Assisted. Demonstration videos show it driven by an operator with a remote while it balanced on its two wheels and handled jumps and slopes itself.
- Actuators & motors
- Battery-electric power running both electric and hydraulic actuators (2017); 10 DoF
- Hands
- Arms in 2017; the 2019 warehouse redesign used a vacuum gripper on a counterbalanced arm (up to 15 kg boxes)
- Sensors & vision
- Depth cameras and on-board vision to track pallets and find boxes
- Other details
- About 2 m tall, 150 kg (warehouse version); 2017 version reached 9 mph and jumped 1.2 m
Lineage
Every Boston Dynamics machine in order.
RHex2001Research
BigDog2005Retired
LittleDog2005Retired
RiSE2006Retired
Sand Flea2012Retired
LS3 (Legged Squad Support System)2012Retired
Cheetah2012Retired
WildCat2013Retired
Spot (now called Spot Classic)2015Retired
SpotMini2016Retired- Handle2017Retired
Handle (logistics version)2019Retired
Spot2019Commercial
Stretch2021Commercial
Spot Enterprise and Spot Arm2021Commercial
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- R&D prototype
- Sold or delivered
- not sold; Boston Dynamics says it led to the Stretch warehouse robot
Sources
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