Industrial
Universal Robots A/S introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform, at the IMTS trade show. The Teradyne Inc. subsidiary said the unified system upgrade enables customers and partners to deploy advanced AI-powered applications into industrial operations while preserving the robot experience that operators, technicians, engineers, and integrators prefer to work with every day.
The Gen 7 platform is anchored by the PolyScope X robot operating system and includes a fully re-engineered control box, teach pendant, and tool flange. UR said it designed all of these to make demanding tasks and setups easier. The Odense, Denmark-based company also added three new robot arms to its e-Series and UR Series lineup: the UR10g-1750, UR17g-1300, and UR18g-950, named after their payload in kilograms and reach in millimeters. They are larger than some of its previous models.
The Gen 7 platform is anchored by the PolyScope X robot operating system and includes a fully re-engineered control box, teach pendant, and tool flange.
“Our vision as a whole at the Teradyne Robotics Group is really to be this destination platform for physical AI,” Will Healy, the director of product and industry marketing, told The Robot Report. “You can do research in a lab, but ultimately you have to deploy it. Our robots are absolutely uniquely suited to deploy for these companies that are trying to actually do AI in a factory.”
Teradyne has been putting more emphasis on AI in recent years. In its most recent earnings statement, the company marked its fifth consecutive quarter of growth and credited AI as a main driver of its revenue growth. “The reason people buy from UR over and over again, in surveys and interviews, is because of our ease of easy, our ease of deploy, our ease of programming,” Healy said. “The goal here is to make it even better, especially in this world of AI.”
With the Gen 7 release, Healy said UR redesigned its controller from the bottom up, downsizing it without sacrificing power.
Source: The Robot Report