石麻笔记 · 微信公众号·· 28 days agoAI score62
A Century of Robotics EP03: How Collaborative Robots Stepped Out of Their Cages
Summary
The article reviews the history of collaborative robots from the 1990s to the 2020s: in 1996, GM and Northwestern University proposed the Cobot concept; in 2005, Universal Robots was founded and launched the UR5 in 2008; in 2015, Teradyne acquired UR for about 284 million USD; and in 2025, UR's cumulative global sales surpassed 100,000 units.
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