The UR5 robot arm from Universal Robots became the first non human to ring the closing bell on the NASDAQ on November 12, 2013. When I broke the news that a non-human would be ringing the bell this ...

You might be ready for your robot overlords, but NASDAQ isn’t. They’ve invited all sorts of humans to ring their opening and closing bell, but yesterday marked the first robot to ever execute the ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Robots has published a new infographic illustrating the rapid rise of collaborative robots – or cobots. In 2008 the Danish robot manufacturer sold the first ...

Universal Robots' UR5 robots have been popping up in small and mid-sized shops across Europe since 2009. The robots' flexibility, ease-of-use and safety have made them ideal for such facilities, the ...

Before RSS Manufacturing & Phylrich put its Universal Robots UR5 robot to work, the task of manually bending 1,500 workpieces on a tube bender would take three days. With its new UR5 device, the same ...

Once the product singulates, it transfers on to a Dorner 1100 Series Conveyor and waits to be picked by the UR5. The robot then places the bottle back in a specified location to rejoin the accumulated ...

Five months ago, a pair of boxes bearing the return address of Universal Robots in Odense, Denmark, showed up on the receiving dock of custom faucet maker RSS Manufacturing & Phylrich. In those boxes ...

“What a lot of people tell me is ‘hardware is hard,’” Eliot Horowitz explains. “I have a really big problem with that statement.” The Viam Robotics CEO and MongoDB co-founder describes purchasing a ...

Not long ago the concept may have seemed to be many years away from reality, but it now appears that we’ve reached the tipping point in human-robot collaboration. Though the days of industrial robots ...