Universal Robots

Every cobot spec sheet leads with a single number such as 20 or 30 kg. It is the first thing a customer sees, the first thing they compare, and the first thing that gets written into an RFQ. It is often treated as the most important consideration in an application, yet just as often buyers misunderstand what this number actually means Rated Payload Describes The Flange, Not The Application A robot's payload capacity is limited by joint torque, and torque is force multiplied by distance.

As industrial automation becomes increasingly connected, cybersecurity has moved from an IT consideration to a critical operational requirement. Manufacturers, integrators, and machine builders are being asked to demonstrate not only that their systems are secure today, but also that security is embedded into the way those systems are developed, maintained, and improved over time.

Teradyne Robotics welcomes Jacob Pascual Pape as Chief Commercial Officer, leading the company’s global commercial organization across Universal Robots and MiR. Jacob Pascual Pape returns to the company after more than a decade at Universal Robots, where he held commercial leadership roles including Regional President for South EMEA and the UK. He joins from Trener Robotics, where he recently served as Global VP of Sales.

Chicago, IL, USA, September 14, 2026: Today at the IMTS tradeshow, Teradyne Robotics company Universal Robots (UR) – the original, world-leading manufacturer of collaborative industrial robots – introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform. Gen 7 represents a unified system upgrade, enhancing the exceptional robot user experience that operators, engineers, and integrators already prefer to work with every day.

MHS is a new standard, currently in research preview, for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment. With Anthopic we are taking part in the research preview on our own UR cobots. Given four separate robot applications and plain-language instructions, an agent running on Claude Opus 4.8 coordinated and orchestrated them as a single cell, handing payloads between them. Safety is designed into MHS.

Odense, Denmark, August 27, 2026: Teradyne Robotics A/S, a Danish-based subsidiary of Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:TER) and global leader in advanced robotics, today announced that it has initiated a patent infringement case at the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Copenhagen against a German subsidiary of the Chinese robot company JAKA.

AI Industry Insights Engineering education may never have been more exciting nor more challenging. The methods that define modern robotics — model-based design, computer vision, reinforcement learning — are changing quickly, and industry is moving toward AI-driven, simulation-first automation. Curricula are not built to change at that speed. Rebuild a course every year to chase the field and you exhaust your faculty; leave it untouched and your graduates arrive in industry already a step behind.

Novi, MI, June 11, 2026: Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), will demonstrate how physical AI is transforming industrial automation at Automate 2026 in Chicago, June 22-25 at booth #1250. “Physical AI is on full display across our robotic solutions at Automate,” said Jean-Pierre Hathout, President of the Teradyne Robotics Group. "The demos we are presenting are real and deployable.

Quality inspection often becomes a silent constraint. Not because standards are weak or tools are missing, but because the work itself is physically demanding and highly repetitive. Inspectors spend hours loading parts into gauges, holding scanners steady, or repeating the same measurements across long shifts. Over time, fatigue sets in. Accuracy becomes harder to maintain, even with experienced staff.

Every hour a skilled welder spends programming a robotic cell for a new part is an hour the arc is off. High-mix production requires frequent changeovers. That often forces your most experienced operators to spend their shifts jogging teach pendants just to get a batch started. You bring in automation to increase throughput, but the setup time outlasts the actual production time.