Product profile
UR5e
UR5e is Universal Robots' mid-size e-Series collaborative robot arm for pick-and-place, testing, dispensing, machine tending and light assembly. The six-ax...
Facts
- Company
- Universal Robots
- Product type
- collaborative_robot_arm
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- collaborative industrial manipulation
- Website
- https://www.universal-robots.com/manuals/EN/HTML/SW5_19/Content/prod-usr-man/complianceUR5e/H_g5_sections/appendix_g5/tech_spec_sheet.htm
About UR5e
UR5e is a six-axis arm with joint torque sensing, a compact base and an operating envelope suited to individual machines and workstations. Its wrist can carry grippers, screwdrivers, dispensers, cameras and test equipment for repeated handling or process motions. Configurable limits for speed, force, momentum and workspace support collaborative deployment where the complete application satisfies the required safety assessment.
Users create tasks through PolyScope and add third-party tools through URCaps that expose device functions within the robot program. Industrial communications and controller I/O connect the arm to machine tools, conveyors, fixtures and plant systems. Universal Robots supplies UR5e through distributors and integrators for flexible automation cells that may be redeployed as production requirements change.
Market context
robot, Collaborative Arm, industrial_robot, Collaborative Arm, industrial_robot, collaborative_arm_platform, industrial_robot
Summary
Type: Cobot arm
Core: Mid reach
Function: Light handling
Audience: Factories
Specifications
- degrees_of_freedom
- 6 rotating joints
- max_payload_kg
- 5 kg kg
- reach_mm
- 850 mm mm
- repeatability_mm
- +/-0.03 mm
- weight_kg
- 20.6 kg kg
Operations
- Environment
- factory automation, test, assembly and machine-tending cells
- Primary user
- manufacturers and automation integrators
- Role
- collaborative manipulation
- Interaction model
- operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- stationary robotic arm
- Product detail
- robot, Collaborative Arm, industrial_robot, Collaborative Arm, industrial_robot, collaborative_arm_platform, industrial_robot
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Drim Robotics deploys cobot for vehicle overpaint finishing — 2026-07-06
- Drim Robotics deploys AI-guided door-seal rolling cobot — 2026-07-06
- UR20 pose-accuracy paper evaluates Universal Robots arm under ISO 9283 testing — 2026-06-22
- Teradyne Robotics stages physical-AI demos at Automate 2026 — 2026-06-08
- When Agents Control Robots: A Zero Trust Policy Model for Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems — 2026-05-25
- Bene Solutions deploys COBOT++ heavy-load depalletising system — 2026-04-10
- ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling — 2026-03-23
- RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics — 2026-03-06