Universal Robots UR15 collaborative robot

Universal Robots has released the UR15, which it says is the company’s fastest ever cobot, enabling reduced cycle times. For pick-and-place applications, the UR15 is said to deliver up to 30% cycle time improvements compared to other UR models.

Combined with OptiMove, UR’s latest motion control technology, those gains are said to go further, enhancing trajectory smoothness and providing consistently accurate movements in high-speed and high-payload applications.

UR15 runs with both PolyScope 5 and PolyScope X software platform, and is AI-ready. The UR15 can easily be used with the UR AI Accelerator, UR’s toolkit for developing AI-powered applications. The UR AI Accelerator was developed in collaboration with NVIDIA using NVIDIA Isaac’s CUDA-accelerated libraries and models and running on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module.

The UR15 has a payload of 15 kg which can be increased to 17.5 kg for applications with wrist-down orientation, such as palletising.