UR5 Overview

What is UR5?

The UR5 was built with the future in mind, designed to grow in respect to capability alongside your business. A springboard to improve product quality and productivity to be able to always stay ahead of the competition. Geared with intuitive programming, versatile use and an almost endless list of opportunities for add-ons, the UR5e is able to complete production regardless of your industry, company size or product nature. The UR5e, the perfect balance between size and power.

The UR5 is a lightweight, adaptable collaborative industrial robot that tackles medium-duty applications with ultimate flexibility. The UR5 is designed for seamless integration into a wide range of applications. UR5 is also offered as an OEM robot system and with a 3-Position Teach pendant.

What applications is UR5 product best for?

The medium-sized member of the Universal Robots family is ideal for automating low weight processing tasks with its 5 kg payload and 850 mm reach radius. Easy to program and fast to set up, the UR5 strikes the perfect balance between size and power.

What are the specifications of UR5?

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Fabio Florian

Fabio Florian

Sep 25, 2023

  • Overall

    4/5

  • Recommendation

    4/5

Period
  • 2021
Testimonial
The R&D project was about building an Automated Paint System using an UR3 robot and a special spray gun. PROS Easy to set up and create simple programs Lightweight High Quality Materials CONS Expensive both cobot itself and tools Programming skills necessary for creating necessary paths and more complex programs Very limited Reach

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Jul 17, 2023

  • Overall

    5/5

  • Recommendation

    5/5

Period
  • 2022
Testimonial
We use this robot in an experiment with end-users trying a block-based language for mobile robots. UR5 was mounted on top of a MiR 250 mobile robot, and it was used by the participants to solve a pick-and-place task using our block-based language. In general, I must say that this is a very solid robot. Universal Robots, in my personal opinion, is one of (if not the) best companies in terms of software development support. Using their API we were able to implement the language as we wanted. The robot itself is also very easy to manipulate using lead-through mode; the participants in our experiment had no issues manipulating it. In terms of operating system and configuration, Universal Robots is also really good, no issues at all.

URe/UR Series Use-Cases

Atria packages food with user-friendly robots

Our goal is to get reliable product lines where we can produce efficiently and effectively while keeping our staffing costs down. As a food producer, it is extremely important for us to minimize downtime, so we can supply fresh goods at a competitive price. This process has now been optimized with collaborative robot arms UR10 and UR5. Implementation time 2 weeks.

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Flywheel Automates Multiple Machine Tending and Welding Tasks Using ActiNav Bin Picking and UR5 Cobot

Flywheel’s high-mix, low-volume production made it difficult to cost-effectively automate many processes such as repetitive, manual machine tending and welding tasks—especially with no prior robotics experience. Additional challenges for the machine tending application included parts that are oily from upstream machine processes, making them difficult for a robot to accurately pick and place, but a wash station between processes would add costs and delays.

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