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A UR20 cobot performing a palletizing process utilizing an OnRobot gripper, a part of the UR+ Ecosystem, at an Irish dairy cooperative’s Ledbury web site. | Supply: Common Robots
Common Robots reached a brand new milestone this week. The Danish collaborative robotic (cobot) developer has now launched over 500 merchandise by its UR+ ecosystem. The corporate says this marks important development within the ecosystem.
“Common Robots is constructed on collaboration and this milestone clearly signifies that we’re the popular platform in collaborative robotics,” Kim Povlsen, president of Common Robots (UR), mentioned. “We have now a tremendous ecosystem with a whole lot of associate corporations spanning from small developer start-ups to established and well-known manufacturers. It’s really a flexible and ever-expanding ecosystem.”
UR launched its UR+ ecosystem in 2016 with the ambition of creating it an open-source-like platform that will empower builders. On the time, the corporate was searching for end-effectors, accent parts, and software program merchandise so as to add to this system. At the moment, the UR+ ecosystem affords a spread of parts, kits, purposes, and options with each {hardware} and software program designed to satisfy numerous buyer wants. It affords merchandise that vary from easy purposes, like grippers, to full options for duties like palletizing and welding.
UR says the event of full techniques has been a transparent pattern lately. The corporate has seen an rising focus throughout the ecosystem on providing clients turnkey techniques to suit the commonest automation wants.
The corporate additionally highlighted one other vital pattern within the trade: speedy development within the variety of purposes and options primarily based on AI. UR has added new merchandise designed for compatibility with its new technology of heavy payload cobots, which it gained a 2024 RBR50 award for.
“Our ecosystem is rising sooner than ever and with bodily AI as the brand new locomotive in robotics, we’ll proceed to see new and groundbreaking improvements being added to our ecosystem at a excessive tempo. For UR, it’s all about offering option to our clients by easy-to-use know-how and, along with our companions, always pushing the boundaries of what will be automated and the way easy it may be carried out,” Povlsen mentioned.