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Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone

Collaborative robot arm

Recorded year2008

Universal Robots sells the UR5, a light arm safe to work beside people without a cage, bringing robots to small workshops.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.