Stretch

1. 5

   Regulator-cleared or mass market

   A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.

2. 4

   Paying customersThis robot

   Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.

   Placed by: Stretch was unloading trailers at the Hermes warehouse in Haldensleben, Germany, part of Otto Group (2025); Gap said that with Stretch, one or two workers could handle 10,000 incoming boxes a day at its warehouses (2025).

3. 3

   Pilot

   Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.

4. 2

   Pre-orders

   Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.

5. 1

   Demo only

   Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. The reported 2025 DHL agreement for more than 1,000 additional Boston Dynamics robots could not be opened during this task (search and fetch limits), so it is left out. No total unit count was found. Boston Dynamics named a new CEO, Rohit Prasad, in Oct 2026.