Fetch Robotics · working robot
Freight
Freight100
A low autonomous base that carries totes and carts between stations, later sold as Freight100. It shares Fetch's laser navigation and docking and can follow a person.
- Price
- —Under a third of Fetch's price (IEEE Spectrum, 2015)
- Height
- 36 cmTaller than 18%
- Weight
- 68 kgHeavier than 43%
- Payload
- 100 kgCarries more than 39%
- Speed
- 7.2 km/hFaster than 71%
- Battery
- 9 hRuns longer than 41%
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Why it matters
A discontinued machine from Fetch Robotics (Zebra Technologies).
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
How it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Freight (Freight100) is taller than 18% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Freight (Freight100) is heavier than 43% of the 75 other working & field robots that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Freight (Freight100) is faster than 71% of the 86 other working & field robots that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Freight (Freight100) carries more than 39% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Freight (Freight100) 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: joints, 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
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It drives itself between stations carrying totes and carts, and can also follow a person.
- Actuators & motors
- Differential drive; about 2 m/s comfortably, up to 3 m/s
- Sensors & vision
- SICK laser scanner (25 m range); can follow a human picker by vision without beacons
- Battery & power
- Self-charges at a shared dock
- AI & software
- ROS-based fleet software
- Other details
- Carries about 70 kg comfortably
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 a third of Fetch's price (IEEE Spectrum, 2015)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Priced under a third of Fetch (2015)
News
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- Freight base revealed
IEEE Spectrum detailed Freight, the cheaper autonomous base sold alongside Fetch.
IEEE Spectrum
Sources
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