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Freight500
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DiscontinuedUnited StatesFully autonomous

Fetch Robotics · working robot

Freight500

A heavier Freight base rated for 500 kg, with lidar front and back and a forward 3D camera. It runs up to 9 hours and recharges to 90 percent in about an hour.

Price
—Not published
Height
36 cmTaller than 15%
Weight
—Not published
Payload
500 kgCarries more than 65%
Speed
—Not published
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.

Timeline

First shown
2017-04
Released
2017
ProMat 2017

Maker

Fetch RoboticsCompany · founded 2014

Acquired by Zebra Technologies (2021)

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. TORUMagazino (a Jungheinrich company) · 2016193 cm
  2. Guardian GTSarcos Technology and Robotics (now Palladyne AI) · 2017145 cm
  3. Scrubber 75Gausium (Gaussian Robotics) · 2017142 cm
  4. KIRA B 50Kärcher · 2018116 cm
  5. temitemi (Robotemi) · 2018100 cm
  6. WarthogClearpath Robotics (now part of Rockwell Automation) with ARGO XTR · 201683 cm
  7. Freight500Fetch Robotics (Zebra Technologies) · 201736 cm
  8. Freight1500Fetch Robotics (Zebra Technologies) · 201736 cm

Freight500 is taller than 15% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Height 36 cm 8 cm200 cm #62 of 73 · taller than 15%

Not published by the maker: weight, speed, 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 navigated warehouses on its own with lidar and a 3D camera, taking transport jobs from fleet software.
Sensors & vision
Same new-generation sensor set as Freight1500: lidar front and back and a forward RGB-D camera
Other details
500 kg payload; about the size of a standard case

Lineage

Every Fetch Robotics (Zebra Technologies) machine in order.

  1. FetchFetch2015Discontinued
  2. Freight (Freight100)Freight (Freight100)2015Discontinued
  3. Freight1500Freight15002017Discontinued
  4. Freight500Freight5002017Discontinued

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Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Fetch shows heavier Freight robots at ProMat

    Fetch Robotics introduced Freight500 and Freight1500 for heavier warehouse loads.

    IEEE Spectrum

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

IEEE Spectrum Fetch Robotics introduces burly new Freight robots zebra.com Freight1500: how it is operated

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