Facts

• Company: Universal Robots
• Product type: Industrial Robot
• Status: active
• Website: https://www.universal-robots.com/products/ur3e/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

UR3e is Universal Robots' compact collaborative robotic arm for assembly, benchtop automation and light material handling. The 3 kg cobot pairs a short 500 mm reach with a small footprint for cells where deployability and close-in precision matter more than span or payload.

Overview

UR3e is Universal Robots' compact collaborative robotic arm for assembly, benchtop automation and light material handling. The 3 kg cobot pairs a short 500 mm reach with a small footprint for cells where deployability and close-in precision matter more than span or payload.

Market context

UR3e is Universal Robots' compact collaborative robotic arm for assembly, benchtop automation and light material handling. The 3 kg cobot pairs a short 500 mm reach with a small footprint for cells where deployability and close-in precision matter more than span or payload.

Audience

Factory integrators

Workflow

UR3e deployment workflows

Capability

Industrial Robot

Deployment environment

UR3e operating environments

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factory integrators
• Workflow: UR3e deployment workflows
• Capability: Industrial Robot
• Deployment environment: UR3e operating environments

Specifications

• Payload: 3 kg kg
• Reach: 500 mm / 19.7 in
• Footprint: Ø 128 mm
• Weight: 11.2 kg kg

Record / Articles

• 2025-05-12 - Article - Universal Robots is building UR15 into high-speed cobot cells

Timeline / Research

• 2025-12-03 - Research Publication - ContactRL paper validates tactile insertion learning on Universal Robots UR3e - ContactRL presents a reinforcement-learning approach for contact-rich insertion tasks using tactile per…
• 2025-01-01 - Research Publication - Multimodal HRI paper evaluates LLM-guided voice and posture interaction on Universal Robots UR3e - The paper presents a natural multimodal fusion system combining voice and deictic po…
• 2024-11-18 - Research Publication - TrojanRobot paper evaluates physical robotic backdoor attacks on Universal Robots UR3e - TrojanRobot studies physical-world backdoor attacks against robotic manipulation policies.
• 2024-10-04 - Research Publication - Robotic ultrasound paper studies image acquisition with Universal Robots UR3e - The paper studies robotic ultrasound image acquisition using diffusion models and partially observable…