Company
We started in a Danish university lab. We ended up on 100,000 production lines.
History
Milestones drawn from the Universal Robots company history.
2005
Universal Robots is founded by Esben Østergaard, Kasper Støy and Kristian Kassow, who met at the University of Southern Denmark.
2008
The first product, the UR5 — a six-jointed articulated robot arm — launches. Distributors sell the first UR5 cobots in Denmark and Germany.
2022
Groundbreaking on a new joint headquarters in Odense, Denmark.
2024
Universal Robots, alongside MiR, inaugurates the new joint headquarters in the City of Odense.
2025
100,000 cobots and counting.
Training network
100 training centers in 23 countries.
Universal Robots opened its 100th training center, extending hands-on cobot education to customers and partners worldwide.
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