Fetch Robotics (USA; later Zebra Technologies) Fetch Mobile Manipulator (1)

Fetch Robotics (USA; later Zebra Technologies) Fetch Mobile Manipulator (2)

Was about $100,000Base research price of about $100,000 per IEEE's robot guide; actual quotes varied.

Discontinued · unavailableVia SSH / web / bridge7-DoF armLifting torsoROSDiscontinued

UnavailableShipping: Not sold. Discontinued; occasionally resold between labs.

Remote control: ROS 1 on the robot; a Linux workstation joins the ROS network.

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Overview

A PR2 successor in spirit from Melonee Wise (a TurtleBot co-creator), a single-arm mobile manipulator with a lifting torso that was popular in labs in the late 2010s, alongside the Freight warehouse base. Zebra Technologies bought Fetch in 2021 and wound the business down in 2025, selling it to Skild AI. Existing research units are unsupported.

Specifications

Category	Wheeled rovers · Research mobile manipulators & platforms
Released	2015
Availability	Discontinued · unavailable
Programmability	Full SDK
Best for	Professionals & labs
Vision sensors	Depth camera, Camera, Lidar
Actuators	Unknown
Audio	Unknown
Compute type	x86 PC (Intel / AMD)
Remote control	Via SSH / web / bridge
Size	1.10 m tall (torso down) to 1.49 m (up), 51 × 56 cm base, 113 kg
Drive	2-wheel differential
Compute	Intel Core i5 (Haswell), 16 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD
Vision	PrimeSense Carmine RGB-D head camera
Lidar	SICK TIM571 2D lidar
Sensors	IMU, encoders, gripper sensors
Runtime	About 9 h (sealed lead-acid battery; 3 h charge to 90%)
Speed	1.0 m/s
SDK	ROS 1 (Melodic era), Gazebo simulation