The American robotics company Boston Dynamics recently made public a new robot called Stretch. It is designed to do only one job: to move containers, or boxes, in large storage buildings called warehouses. Michael Perry is vice president of business development for Boston Dynamics. He said Stretch is the first robot designed for one job that the company has built. He added that the robot was developed because of requests from companies around the world. “We heardpretty much universallyacross warehousing that truck unloading is one of the most physically difficult and unpleasant jobs... And that’s where Stretch comes into play,” Perry told Reuters. Stretch has a smallbasethat permits it to move around small spaces in existing warehouses without having to redesign them. The robot also has an arm with highly developed cameras that can identify and deal with boxes of many shapes and sizes. Perry said Stretch can pick up boxes that weigh about 23 kilograms. He adds that the robot can move about 800 boxes in one hour. Boston Dynamics is known for YouTube videos of its dog-like ‘Spot’ and humanoid ‘Atlas’ robots. Perry said now is a good time for its latest robot to benefit from increasing demand for speedy homedelivery. Experts say the warehousing industry experienced strong growth in 2020. That growth is expected to continue this year.
Title: A New Robot Aims to Do the Heavy Lifting
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4997/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='A New Robot Aims to Do the Heavy Lifting' data-article-id='5523'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8708'>The American robotics company Boston Dynamics recently made public a new robot called Stretch.</span> <span data-start-time='8708' data-end-time='21375'>It is designed to do only one job: to move containers, or boxes, in large storage buildings called warehouses.</span> <span data-start-time='21375' data-end-time='28875'>Michael Perry is vice president of business development for Boston Dynamics.</span> <span data-start-time='28875' data-end-time='36833'>He said Stretch is the first robot designed for one job that the company has built.</span> <span data-start-time='36833' data-end-time='45521'>He added that the robot was developed because of requests from companies around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='45521' data-end-time='62625'>“We heardpretty much universallyacross warehousing that truck unloading is one of the most physically difficult and unpleasant jobs... And that’s where Stretch comes into play,” Perry told Reuters.</span> <span data-start-time='62625' data-end-time='73750'>Stretch has a smallbasethat permits it to move around small spaces in existing warehouses without having to redesign them.</span> <span data-start-time='73750' data-end-time='86292'>The robot also has an arm with highly developed cameras that can identify and deal with boxes of many shapes and sizes.</span> <span data-start-time='86292' data-end-time='93938'>Perry said Stretch can pick up boxes that weigh about 23 kilograms.</span> <span data-start-time='93938' data-end-time='101333'>He adds that the robot can move about 800 boxes in one hour.</span> <span data-start-time='101333' data-end-time='112146'>Boston Dynamics is known for YouTube videos of its dog-like ‘Spot’ and humanoid ‘Atlas’ robots.</span> <span data-start-time='112146' data-end-time='123146'>Perry said now is a good time for its latest robot to benefit from increasing demand for speedy homedelivery.</span> <span data-start-time='123146' data-end-time='130708'>Experts say the warehousing industry experienced strong growth in 2020.</span> <span data-start-time='130708' data-end-time='136229'>That growth is expected to continue this year.</span> <span data-start-time='' data-end-time=''></span> <span data-start-time='' data-end-time=''></span> <span data-start-time='' data-end-time=''></span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4997/B.jpeg'/></div></div><div 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