# Introducing Stretch AI!

**URL:** <https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/introducing-stretch-ai/1175>\
**Category:** Announce\
**Created:** [December 6, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/introducing-stretch-ai/1175 "2024-12-06T22:23:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/introducing-stretch-ai/1175/1 "2024-12-06T22:23:39Z")

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Hello, Stretch community! We’re excited to announce the release of [**Stretch AI**](https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai) - a new open-source suite of tools, tutorials, and reference code to explore and build the future of home robots with Stretch 3!

Stretch AI helps accelerate your research with tools for:

- Language-guided autonomy with LLM Agents
- Learning from Demonstration for policy training (ACT, Diffusion, VQ-BeT)
- Real-time visualization with Rerun
- Mapping, navigation, and grasping

Leverage the AI Agent demo for real-world commands: _“Hey Stretch, pick up the toy and place it in the bin.”_ Use LfD to teach Stretch dexterous tasks like opening a cabinet door. Of course it’s all open source, so you can download and run Stretch AI with your robot (and a external GPU-powered machine) today.

You can see more [on our website here](https://hello-robot.com/stretch-ai), or go straight to the [Github repo and explore the codebase](https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_ai). If you decide to try out Stretch AI, let us know! We’d love to get feedback on how to make this feature better for our community.