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A UR20 cobot performing a palletizing job 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 via its UR+ ecosystem. The corporate says this marks vital 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’ve a tremendous ecosystem with tons of of accomplice corporations spanning from small developer start-ups to established and well-known manufacturers. It’s actually 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 might empower builders. On the time, the corporate was in search of end-effectors, accent parts, and software program merchandise so as to add to this system. At the moment, the UR+ ecosystem gives a variety of parts, kits, functions, and options with each {hardware} and software program designed to fulfill varied buyer wants. It gives merchandise that vary from easy functions, like grippers, to full options for duties like palletizing and welding.
UR says the event of full programs has been a transparent pattern in recent times. The corporate has seen an growing focus throughout the ecosystem on providing prospects turnkey programs to suit the commonest automation wants.
The corporate additionally highlighted one other vital pattern within the business: fast development within the variety of functions and options primarily based on AI. UR has added new merchandise designed for compatibility with its new era of heavy payload cobots, which it won a 2024 RBR50 award for.
“Our ecosystem is rising sooner than ever and with bodily AI as the brand new locomotive in robotics, we are going to 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 via 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 achieved,” Povlsen mentioned.
