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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 website. | 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 way of its UR+ ecosystem. The corporate says this marks vital progress 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), stated. “We’ve got a tremendous ecosystem with tons of of accomplice firms 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 constructing it an open-source-like platform that may empower builders. On the time, the corporate was on the lookout for end-effectors, accent elements, and software program merchandise so as to add to this system. Right now, the UR+ ecosystem affords a variety of elements, kits, purposes, and options with each {hardware} and software program designed to fulfill varied 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 development lately. The corporate has seen an growing focus inside the ecosystem on providing prospects turnkey techniques to suit the most typical automation wants.
The corporate additionally highlighted one other essential development within the trade: fast progress within the variety of purposes and options based mostly 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 quicker 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 prospects by way of easy-to-use expertise and, along with our companions, always pushing the boundaries of what could be automated and the way easy it may be carried out,” Povlsen stated.
