---
title: "Universal Robots UR3 Arm Is Small and Nimble, Helps to Build Copies of Itself"
description: "Universal Robots, based in Odense, Denmark, is announcing today a new addition to its line of industrial robotic arms."
date: "2015-03-18"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/universal-robots-ur3-arm-is-small-and-nimble-helps-to-build-copies-of-itself"
categories:
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "robotics"
---

# Universal Robots UR3 Arm Is Small and Nimble, Helps to Build Copies of Itself

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- Universal Robots has been expanding at a rapid pace, selling 2000 robots last year and planning to sell 4000 this year, with expected revenue of $100 million. With a more portable and affordable offering, the company wants to bring robots to companies—especially small and medium businesses—for which automation has been too complex or costly.
- The UR3 will sell for US $23,000 in the United States. Like its predecessors, the UR3 is a 6-axis articulated arm that can perform a host of tasks (pick-and-place, soldering, screwing, gluing, painting) in close collaboration with human workers. To program the robot, you can simply grab it, move it around, and tap on a touchscreen to record the desired positions and actions.
- Collaborative robots are one of the hottest trends in industrial automation. Competing with Universal Robots are startups like Rethink Robotics (creator of the two-armed humanoid Baxter) and traditional robot makers such as ABB (which has a “robotic coworker” called FRIDA YuMi), among others.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)