UR3e

Source-backed capabilities

• Robotic grasping

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-31 - In this work, we address the limitation of surface fitting-based grasp planning algorithm, which primarily focuses on geometric alignment between the gripper and object surface while overlooking the stability of contact point distribution, often resulting in unstable grasps due to inadequate contact configurations.

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• Precision insertion

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-03 - ContactRL validates tactile reinforcement learning for contact-rich insertion on a physical Universal Robots UR3e arm.

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• Object manipulation

  Research demonstration - 2024-11-18 - TrojanRobot studies physical-world backdoor attacks against robotic manipulation policies.

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• Remote and shared control

  Research demonstration - 2025-04-02 - The study proposes a real-time shared-control framework for active 3D scene representation in robotic inspection.

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• Robotic inspection

  Research demonstration - 2025-04-02 - The study proposes a real-time shared-control framework for active 3D scene representation in robotic inspection.

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Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

• D455

  Research Experiment - Connected - Physical - UR3e was evaluated with RealSense D455 providing the third-person camera view.

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• RealSense D405

  Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - UR3e was evaluated with RealSense D405 mounted at the wrist.

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• OptiPro Systems optics-manufacturing cell configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - OptiPro Systems optics-manufacturing cell uses UR3e in the configuration documented by Universal Robots.

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• SESI/SENAI operating configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - SESI/SENAI used Universal Robots UR3e in an operating configuration documented by Universal Robots.

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• Moravian-Silesian vocational schools operating configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - Moravian-Silesian vocational schools used Universal Robots UR3e in an operating configuration documented by Universal Robots.

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• Labman Automation operating configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - Labman Automation used Universal Robots UR3e in an operating configuration documented by Universal Robots.

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• Sensata Technologies Malaysia configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - Sensata Malaysia operates dozens of UR3e and UR5e cobots in production autoloading.

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• Mandom configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - Mandom built an unmanned production line using UR3e, UR5e and UR10e cobots.

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• THEMAGIC5 configuration

  Operational - Mounted - Physical - THEMAGIC5 uses UR3 and UR3e cobots for custom swim-goggle finishing.

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• FR-VLA: Implicit Force Reasoning VLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation

  2026-10-19 - Research Publication - FR-VLA uses implicit force reasoning for contact-rich manipulation. Five tasks are evaluated on UR5e and UR3e robots with force/torque information and external and wrist-mounted cameras.

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• When Agents Control Robots: A Zero Trust Policy Model for Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems

  2026-05-25 - Research Publication - Multi-agent systems powered by large foundation models (LFMs) are increasingly deployed to control industrial robots through natural language, creating deployments in which security failures produce physical consequences.

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• FactoryBench: Evaluating Industrial Machine Understanding

  2026-05-08 - Research Publication - We introduce FactoryBench, a benchmark for evaluating time-series models and LLMs on machine understanding over industrial robotic telemetry. Q&A pairs are organized along four causal levels (state, intervention, counterfactual, decision) instantiating Pearl's ladder of causation, and span five answer formats: four structured formats are scored deterministically and free-form answers are scored by an LLM-as-judge voting protocol.

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• ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling

  2026-03-23 - Research Publication - The UR3e evaluation comprises 10,000 Isaac Sim trials and reports reach-constrained pick-and-place performance with a suction gripper.

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• RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics

  2026-03-06 - Research Publication - End-user robot programming grants users the flexibility to re-task robots in situ, yet it remains challenging for novices due to the need for specialized robotics knowledge.

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• DISF: Disentangled Iterative Surface Fitting for Contact-stable Grasp Planning with Grasp Pose Alignment to the Object Center of Mass

  2025-12-31 - Research Publication - In this work, we address the limitation of surface fitting-based grasp planning algorithm, which primarily focuses on geometric alignment between the gripper and object surface while overlooking the stability of contact point distribution, often resulting in unstable grasps due to inadequate contact configurations.

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• ContactRL: Safe Reinforcement Learning based Motion Planning for Contact based Human Robot Collaboration

  2025-12-03 - Research Publication - In collaborative human-robot tasks, safety requires not only avoiding collisions but also ensuring safe, intentional physical contact.

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• Development of a Linear Guide-Rail Testbed for Physically Emulating ISAM Operations

  2025-10-14 - Research Publication - In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) is a set of emerging operations that provides several benefits to improve the longevity, capacity, mo- bility, and expandability of existing and future space assets.

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• RoboPilot: Generalizable Dynamic Robotic Manipulation with Dual-thinking Modes

  2025-09-30 - Research Publication - Adds UR3e research around long-horizon manipulation, replanning and benchmarked error recovery.

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• ARMimic: Learning Robotic Manipulation from Passive Human Demonstrations in Augmented Reality

  2025-09-29 - Research Publication - Adds UR3e imitation-learning research with explicit real-robot deployment.

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• Preference-Driven Active 3D Scene Representation for Robotic Inspection in Nuclear Decommissioning

  2025-04-02 - Research Publication - Active 3D scene representation is pivotal in modern robotics applications, including remote inspection, manipulation, and telepresence.

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• Natural Multimodal Fusion-Based Human-Robot Interaction: Application With Voice and Deictic Posture via Large Language Model

  2025-01-01 - Research Publication - Translating human intent into robot commands is crucial for the future of service robots in an aging society.

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• TrojanRobot paper uses Robotiq Hand-E gripper in physical robotic backdoor experiments

  2024-11-18 - Research Publication - Robotic manipulation policies are increasingly empowered by \textit{large language models} (LLMs) and \textit{vision-language models} (VLMs), leveraging their understanding and perception capabilities.

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• Design and Evaluation of a Compliant Quasi Direct Drive End-effector for Safe Robotic Ultrasound Imaging

  2024-10-04 - Research Publication - Robot-assisted ultrasound scanning promises to advance autonomous and accessible medical imaging. However, ensuring patient safety and compliant human-robot interaction (HRI) during probe contact poses a significant challenge.

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• Towards human-like kinematics in industrial robotic arms: a case study on a UR3 robot

  2024-09-25 - Research Publication - Safety in industrial robotic environments is a hot research topic in the area of human-robot interaction (HRI). Up to now, a robotic arm on an assembly line interacts with other machines away from human workers.

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• Guarding Force: Safety-Critical Compliant Control for Robot-Environment Interaction

  2024-05-08 - Research Publication - In this study, we propose a safety-critical compliant control strategy designed to strictly enforce interaction force constraints during the physical interaction of robots with unknown environments.

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Media library

• UR3e product view

  image · Universal Robots

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• UR3e tool-flange detail

  image · Universal Robots

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• UR3e joint detail

  image · Universal Robots

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Current official exact-model specifications, PolyScope manuals and product imagery for the Universal Robots UR3e compact cobot.

• UR3e product and technical reference

  WEB · UR3e · Universal Robots

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• UR3e technical specification

  PDF · UR3e · Universal Robots

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• UR3e PolyScope 5 user manual

  PDF · UR3e / PolyScope 5 · Universal Robots

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• UR3e PolyScope X user manual

  PDF · UR3e / PolyScope X · Universal Robots

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Comparable Systems

• GoFa 12

  ABB Robotics - Industrial Robot

• GoFa CRB 15000

  ABB Robotics - Industrial Robot

• PoWa

  ABB Robotics - Collaborative Robot

• AUBO-i10

  AUBO Robotics - Industrial Cobot

• AUBO-i12

  AUBO Robotics - Collaborative Robot

• AUBO-i16

  AUBO Robotics - Collaborative Robot

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• AUBO i5

  AUBO Robotics - Collaborative Robot

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  Brooks Automation - Industrial Robot Family

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  Dobot - Industrial Cobot

• CRX collaborative robot series

  FANUC - Collaborative Robot

• CR20A

  Dobot - Industrial Cobot

• A Series

  Doosan Robotics - Collaborative Robotic Arm