Installing ROS-Industrial packages of  Universal robotic arms

Universal Robots (http://www.universal-robots.com/) is an industrial robot manufacturer based in Denmark. The company mainly produces three arms: UR3, UR5, and UR10. The robots are shown in the following figure:

Figure 7: UR-3, UR-5, and UR-10 robots

The specifications of these robots are given in the following table:

Robot

UR-3

UR-5

UR-10

Working radius

500 mm

850 mm

1,300 mm

Payload

3 kg

5 kg

10 kg

Weight

11 kg

18.4 kg

28.9 kg

Footprint

118 mm

149 mm

190 mm

 

In the next section, we will install the Universal Robots packages ...

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