Tools & manufacturing · 2008

Collaborative robot

A light robot arm safe enough to work beside people.

Universal Robots of Denmark sold its first UR5 cobot in 2008. Force-limited arms needing no safety cage brought automation to small factories.

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

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