Fetch Robotics · working robot
Fetch
A wheeled robot with a rising torso, a pan-tilt head camera and a 7-joint arm that lifts 6 kg, able to reach from the floor to just under 2 m. It shared a charging dock and fleet software with the Freight base.
- Price
- —Under $100,000 (CEO, 2015)
- Height
- 149 cmTaller than 85%
- Weight
- 113.3 kgHeavier than 63%
- Payload
- 6 kgCarries more than 5%
- Speed
- 3.6 km/hFaster than 14%
- Battery
- 9 hRuns longer than 41%
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Why it matters
One of the first commercial mobile manipulators aimed at warehouse picking, widely adopted as a ROS research robot.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- 2015
How it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Fetch is taller than 85% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Fetch is heavier than 63% of the 75 other working & field robots that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Fetch is faster than 14% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Fetch carries more than 5% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Fetch has more joints than 67% of the 3 other working & field robots that publish a joints. Bars show the 3 closest in date.
Fetch runs longer than 41% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: 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
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 11 joints
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It navigates by itself with lasers and docks to charge; its arm tasks were programmed by users, often researchers.
- Actuators & motors
- Differential-drive base with a rising torso
- Hands
- 7-DoF back-drivable arm lifting 6 kg, reaching from floor to just under 2 m; modular gripper with ISO interface and its own Ethernet link
- Sensors & vision
- PrimeSense 3D sensor on a pan-tilt head; SICK laser scanner (25 m range) for navigation
- Battery & power
- Self-charges at a shared dock (20-minute top-ups, 3-hour deep cycles)
- AI & software
- Built on ROS, with mapping, semantic labelling and multi-robot task allocation
Lineage
Every Fetch Robotics (Zebra Technologies) machine in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedUnder $100,000 (CEO, 2015)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Shipping from Q2 2015 at under $100,000 (CEO)
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Fetch Robotics details Fetch and Freight
IEEE Spectrum described the new warehouse mobile manipulator and its base, due to ship in Q2 2015.
IEEE Spectrum
Sources
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