Welcome

This is your jumping off point for Stretch tutorials, hardware manuals, and APIs.

We wish you success in your development journey with Stretch. Please contact us at support@hello-robot.com if you don't find what you're looking for.

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--The Hello Robot team

Version

This is version 0.2 of the Stretch User Documentation. It is written with the following system configuration in mind:

Resource	Description
Model	Stretch RE1 or Stretch RE2
OS	Ubuntu 20.04
ROS	Noetic and Melodic
Python	Python3
Stretch Body	'>=0.4

You can access prior documentation suitable for older configurations (eg Ubuntu 18.04, ROS Melodic) here

New to Stretch?

We recommend you follow the Getting to Know Stretch Tutorials.

Please take the time to learn safe and best practices in operating Stretch.

The Stretch RE1 is a potentially dangerous robot. All users must carefully read the Stretch Safety Guide prior to using the robot.

Where to Find Things

All of the documentation is accessible and searchable via the navigation menu on this site. Alternatively, you can view the markdown hosted on at the Hello Robot GitHub portal.

In addition, it is worth spending some time on the following sites:

Resource	Description
Stretch Community	Repository for community shared code
Stretch Forum	Discourse User Forum

License

This documentation is only to be used for an authentic Stretch RE1 or RE2 robot produced and sold by Hello Robot Inc.

All Hello Robot documentation and related materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.