Boston Dynamics StretchvsIllumina Illumina NovaSeq X
Side-by-side comparison of Boston Dynamics Stretch and Illumina Illumina NovaSeq X: specs, price, use cases and SDKs.

Boston Dynamics
Stretch
Box-moving robot for trailer unload and palletizing
From
$0

Illumina
Illumina NovaSeq X
Production scale, ultra-high-throughput sequencers for advanced genomic applications.
From
$985,000
Specifications
| Spec | Stretch | Illumina NovaSeq X |
|---|---|---|
| Price (USD) | $0 | $985,000 |
| Category | industrial | industrial |
| Payload | 23 kg | null kg |
| Runtime | 16 h | 14 h |
| Speed | 1.5 m/s | null m/s |
| Weight | 1200 kg | 532 kg |
| Degrees of Freedom | 7 | null |
| Battery | Auto-charge during pickup pauses | — |
Shared use cases
No shared use cases
Only on Stretch
- Trailer / container unloading
- Mixed-SKU palletizing
- Bulk depalletizing
Only on Illumina NovaSeq X
- Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)
- Transcriptome Sequencing (RNA-Seq)
- Epigenomics
- Metagenomics
- Single-cell analysis
- Exome sequencing
- Circulating tumor DNA sequencing
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