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 ...

Unlike any industrial robots that came before them, Baxter and the UR5 were created to run cage-free as true "collaborative robots." "The direct interaction with the robot has always been a key part ...

To ring the NASDAQ closing bell, the UR5 robot arm was integrated with a three-fingered SDH gripper. UR5 weighs only 40 pounds and can handle a payload of up to 11.3 pounds.

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 ...

Universal Robots' Stefan Tøndering Stubgaard provides an overview of the cage-free, simple-to-program UR5 robot during its U.S. debut at IMTS 2012.