# Fetch Robotics

> Fetch Robotics is a provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment. Its robots (Fetch, Freight) are programmed through a ROS (Robot Operating System) interface rather than an HTTP/REST API. The company was acquired by Zebra Technologies in August 2021; fetchrobotics.com now redirects to Zebra and the autonomous-mobile-robot line is being wound down (2025-2026). The open-source ROS packages remain published in the fetchrobotics GitHub organization.

## Overview
- Programmatic surface: ROS (Robot Operating System) topics, services, and actions — not an HTTP/REST API.
- Standard interfaces: control_msgs/FollowJointTrajectory (arm/torso), control_msgs/PointHead (head), geometry_msgs/Twist (mobile base), sensor_msgs/Imu (IMU sensors).
- Conforms to ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) for code portability across ROS robots.

## Source Code (first-party, open source)
- fetch_ros — Open ROS components/drivers for Fetch and Freight: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetch_ros
- fetch_gazebo — Gazebo simulation for Fetch/Freight: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetch_gazebo
- robot_controllers — Real-time control infrastructure: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/robot_controllers
- fetch_open_auto_dock — Autonomous docking: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetch_open_auto_dock
- rosgo — Pure-Go ROS client library: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/rosgo (https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/fetchrobotics/rosgo)
- flow — C++14 multi-stream data synchronization: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/flow

## Docs
- API overview (archived): https://github.com/fetchrobotics/docs
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/fetchrobotics

## Catalog artifacts (this repo)
- packages/fetch-robotics-packages.yml
- conformance/fetch-robotics-conformance.yml
- lifecycle/fetch-robotics-lifecycle.yml
- security/fetch-robotics-domain-security.yml
- well-known/fetch-robotics-well-known.yml

## Ownership
- Acquired by Zebra Technologies, August 2021: https://www.zebra.com/us/en/about-zebra/newsroom/press-releases/2021/zebra-technologies-to-acquire-fetch-robotics.html