Facts

• Company: Dobot
• Product type: Industrial Cobot
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.dobot-robots.com/products/cr-series/cr5.html

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

DOBOT CR5 is a six-axis collaborative robot arm for flexible automation. It supports drag-to-teach programming, collision detection and repeatable handling for inspection, assembly, screwdriving, bin picking, loading and unloading tasks.

Overview

DOBOT CR5 is a six-axis collaborative robot arm for flexible automation. It supports drag-to-teach programming, collision detection and repeatable handling for inspection, assembly, screwdriving, bin picking, loading and unloading tasks.

Market context

DOBOT CR5 is a 5 kg payload collaborative robot arm for light industrial automation supporting drag-to-teach, collision detection and repeatable task execution.

• Target environment: Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and industrial automation environments.
• Workflow context: Light industrial handling, inspection, loading and machine-tending tasks using collaborative robot arm automation.
• Customer context: Industrial manufacturers and automation integrators seeking accessible cobot arms.
• Deployment model: Commercial product sold as a collaborative robot arm for industrial automation.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available cobot with broad industrial adoption in the light payload range.
• Adoption constraints: Fixed or semi-fixed mounting limits mobility. Designed for defined workcell tasks rather than mobile operation.
• Market position: Sits in the common light-cobot payload range. Part of DOBOT CR Series alongside the larger CR10.
• Adjacent products: DOBOT CR10, collaborative robot arms

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Light industrial handling, inspection, loading and machine-tending tasks using collaborative robot arm automation.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and industrial automation environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Light industrial handling, inspection, loading and machine-tending tasks using collaborative robot arm automation.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factory floors, manufacturing workcells and industrial automation environments.

Specifications

• Dof: 6
• Weight Kg: 25 kg
• Payload Kg: 5 kg
• Reach Mm: 900 mm
• Max Reach Mm: 1096 mm
• Repeatability Mm: ±0.02 mm
• Max Tcp Speed Mps: 3 m/s
• Mobility: N/A (fixed arm)
• Voltage: 48V DC
• Power Consumption W: 150 W
• Joint Range: J1–J6: up to ±360° (varies per joint)
• Max Joint Speed Degs: ~180°/s
• Programming: Drag-to-teach, Graphical programming, Script-based control
• Communication: TCP/IP, Modbus, RS485, Wi-Fi
• End Io: Digital + analog I/O (controller + end-effector)
• Ip Rating: IP54 (arm)
• Safety: Collision detection, Safe human collaboration, Optional SafeSkin pre-collision system
• Primary Applications: Pick and place, Assembly, Machine tending, Inspection workflows, Light material handling

Tags

• Peer Group: Cobot arm
• Workflow: Box handling
• Capability: Force control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-03 - Research Publication - Phone2Act: A Low-Cost, Hardware-Agnostic Teleoperation System for Scalable VLA Data Collection - Phone2Act turns a commodity smartphone into a 6-DoF robot teleoperation controller for…
• 2023-04-27 - Demonstration - Dobot CR5 robotic arm demonstrated sanding and polishing capabilities - • Dobot showcased the CR5 robotic arm performing sanding and polishing tasks at the Hannover Messe.
• 2022-07-13 - Demonstration - Dobot CR5 Demonstrates Smartphone Screen Pick and Place - • Dobot showcased the CR5 robotic arm performing pick and place operations for smartphone screens.
• 2022-07-07 - Market Signal - DOBOT CR5 cobot receives 30,000-hour MTBF certificate - • DOBOT announced that its CR5 collaborative robot received an MTBF certificate.

Comparable Systems

• LARA - Neura Robotics - Robotic Arm
• YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) - ABB - Robotic Arm
• NEXTAGE - KAWADA Robotics Corporation - Robotic Arm
• DOBOT CR10 - Dobot - Industrial Cobot
• DOBOT Magician Lite - Dobot - Robotic Arm