UR’s Direct Torque Management interface applies to each the e-Sequence and UR Sequence and is supported by PolyScope 5 and PolyScope X. | Supply: Common Robots
Common Robots has introduced early entry to its Direct Torque Management expertise for collaborative robots. The expertise offers researchers and builders real-time management of all of the joints in a UR cobot at 500 Hz, with no customized stack required.
Being able to immediately management the torque of all of the arm’s joints opens huge alternatives for cobots to hold out demanding duties, the firm stated. However even for knowledgeable cobot customers and researchers, constructing your personal software program stack to allow that is each time-consuming and difficult.
“These capabilities have gotten more and more wanted inside analysis and schooling, particularly for AI,” said Anders Billesø Beck, vp of expertise at Common Robots.
“With our new interface, we’re making it a lot simpler for researchers and companions to work with direct torque management,” he stated. “As a substitute of spending a very long time implementing different options, they’ll now focus instantly on their analysis or on growing new, modern purposes utilizing the capabilities already integrated into our PolyScope software program.”
Particularly, Beck stated direct torque management has potential for purposes corresponding to meeting and screwdriving, the place exact power and delicate contact are essential. NVIDIA Robotics has had entry to a beta model of the brand new interface to construct an business use case for gear meeting, showcasing how the torque management interface allows sim-to-real switch.
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Common Robots gross sales sluggish in 2024, early 2025
Common Robots is part of Teradyne Inc.’s robotics group, together with autonomous cell robotic (AMR) supplier Cell Industrial Robots (MiR). UR declined 3% yr over yr, and MiR grew 1% yr over yr. Teradyne Robotics laid off 10% of its world employees in January.
To date, Teradyne’s robotics group hasn’t fared higher in 2025. In line with the corporate, its robotics income was $69 million in Q1 2025, which is down from $98 million in This autumn 2024. This additionally marked a 21% drop in gross sales in Q1 yr over yr.
Common Robots has been a long-time collaborative robotic market chief. Earlier this yr, the corporate surpassed 100,000 cobots offered over its lifetime.
However UR isn’t the one firm experiencing slower gross sales. This yr, for the primary time, the Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3) included cobot statistics in its quarterly North American robotic numbers.
Total, robotic gross sales remained principally flat from final yr, with models ordered growing 0.4% to 9,064 models. Cobots made up 11.6% of all robots ordered, in line with A3.
In Could, Common Robots launched the UR15, its quickest cobot but. The UR15 has a most TCP pace of 5 m/s to scale back cycle occasions, enhance productiveness, and cut back prices throughout purposes and industries. For pick-and-place purposes, the corporate stated the UR15 delivers as much as 30% cycle time enhancements in contrast with different UR fashions.
