RightHand Robotics

RightHand Robotics is a warehouse robotics company founded in 2015 as a spinout from Harvard Biodesign Lab, raising $66M to build piece picking robots for retail and e-commerce fulfillment. The company's RightPick system uses a multi-fingered robotic hand with tactile, vision, and force sensing alongside machine learning to perceive and grasp individual items from storage totes and place them into shipment packaging. The robot handles a wide range of product types including soft goods, irregularly shaped items, and polybag-wrapped products that are difficult for suction-only grippers. RightHand Robotics targets distribution centers running goods-to-person fulfillment systems where the last step of picking individual items from each tote to fill orders remains a manual bottleneck. The company has deployed commercial systems at major retailers and 3PL providers and integrates with leading warehouse management systems. RightHand differentiates through its multi-modal sensing approach that provides tactile feedback enabling more reliable grasp quality assessment and handling of flexible or fragile items that pure vision-guided systems struggle with.