Product profile
UR18
UR18 is Universal Robots' compact 18 kg-payload collaborative arm for handling, assembly and high-torque fastening. Its 950 mm reach, 4 m/s TCP speed and 2...
Facts
- Company
- Universal Robots
- Product type
- industrial_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- robotic_manipulation
- Website
- https://www.universal-robots.com/products/ur18/
About UR18
UR18 combines an 18 kg maximum payload with 950 mm reach in a 39.2 kg arm, allowing larger tools and parts to be handled without the mass of a longer-reach cobot. A maximum TCP speed of 4 m/s and ±0.05 mm repeatability support fast pick-and-place, case packing, assembly and high-torque screwdriving in compact cells.
The arm uses a 204 mm mounting footprint and an integrated M8 tool connector carrying power, I/O and RS-485 communication. IP65 protection and ISO Class 4 cleanroom certification extend deployment into dusty, wash-exposed, semiconductor and pharmaceutical environments. Programmable status lighting provides visible machine-state feedback at the workstation.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Collaborative arm
Core: UR18
Function: Industrial handling
Audience: Manufacturers
Specifications
- arm_weight_kg
- 39.2 kg
- average_power_consumption_w
- 570 W
- degrees_of_freedom
- 6 rotating joints
- ip_classification
- Robot arm IP65; control box IP44; teach pendant IP54
- maximum_tcp_speed_m_s
- 4 m/s
- operating_temperature
- 0–50 °C
- payload_kg
- 18 kg
- reach_mm
- 950 mm
- repeatability_mm
- ±0.05 mm mm
- tool_interface
- ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 flange with 12/24 V tool power and digital/analog I/O
Operations
- Environment
- industrial_production, manufacturing_floor, automated_workcell
- Primary user
- manufacturers, automation_integrators, robot_programmers
- Role
- robotic_manipulation, industrial_automation, material_handling
- Interaction model
- programmed_automation, collaborative_operation, end_effector_integration
- Mobility class
- fixed_base_articulated_arm, six_axis_robotic_arm
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Drim Robotics deploys cobot for vehicle overpaint finishing — 2026-07-06
- Drim Robotics deploys AI-guided door-seal rolling cobot — 2026-07-06
- UR20 pose-accuracy paper evaluates Universal Robots arm under ISO 9283 testing — 2026-06-22
- Teradyne Robotics stages physical-AI demos at Automate 2026 — 2026-06-08
- When Agents Control Robots: A Zero Trust Policy Model for Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems — 2026-05-25
- Flex and Teradyne Robotics expand global manufacturing partnership — 2026-04-22
- Bene Solutions deploys COBOT++ heavy-load depalletising system — 2026-04-10
- ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling — 2026-03-23