RightHand Robotics takes on the hardest technical challenge of the ecommerce era: Teaching a machine to pick stuff up. : RightHand Robotics takes on the hardest technical challenge of the ecommerce era: Teaching a machine to pick stuff up. RightHand Robotics, a Boston-based robotics company tackling a particularly vexing technical challenge for ecommerce fulfillment centers, has secured $23 million in Series B funding. The Round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures).