Physical AI for Industrial Automation | Universal Robots

Universal Robots pioneered collaborative automation, changing the way people work alongside robots and making advanced technology accessible to businesses everywhere.
Today, we lead the next phase: Physical AI – bridging AI and robotics to enable smarter, adaptive automation.
Backed by a global ecosystem of 1,200+ partners and alliances with NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Siemens, we drive solutions that combine proven trust with intelligence built for modern industry.
Physical AI only works in production when reliable control, safety, and scalability already exist. Universal Robots provides the platform that makes intelligence actionable on the factory floor.
Universal Robots offers an open, extensible platform where AI integrates above the control layer rather than overriding it. With PolyScope X, URCaps, ROS 2, and native integration with NVIDIA’s AI stack, perception, planning, and optimisation plug in where they add value, while real‑time control and certified safety remain fully enforced by the robot.
Physical AI can reason probabilistically, but robot execution must be deterministic. The Universal Robots platform provides real-time motion and force control with tightly integrated feedback loops, ensuring that AI-driven commands are executed predictably, stably, and safely in contact-rich applications.
AI in production must operate inside certified safety boundaries. Universal Robots embeds safety across hardware and software, ensuring AI‑enabled applications meet industrial safety standards. Intelligence operates within those boundaries, not outside them.
Physical AI only matters if it scales. Universal Robots supports partner‑led deployment from single cells to global fleets, using a consistent platform architecture that enables reliable industrial rollout without starting from scratch.
Whether you’re developing physical AI or deploying it in production, Universal Robots offers the platform and ecosystem to do both.
Build and deploy physical AI on a real industrial platform
Deploy AI-enabled automation with confidence
Universal Robots combines an AI‑ready control platform with high‑performance development tools, so developers can integrate AI more seamlessly and accelerate the path to deployable automation.
The AI Accelerator provides a production-oriented foundation for running AI workloads directly on industrial robots. It supports real-time perception and decision-making at the edge, enabling AI-enabled automation to operate reliably in dynamic production environments.
AI Trainer enables developers and partners to capture high-fidelity robot, force, and vision data directly on production-grade UR robots. It supports imitation learning and physical AI experimentation on industrial hardware, helping teams explore, validate, and refine AI-driven robotic capabilities with a clearer path toward real-world deployment.
Our ecosystem is your advantage. With 1,200+ partners worldwide, including 200 UR+ technology partners and 200+ OEM solution partners, Universal Robots provides the foundation for AI robotics, turning our ecosystem into your competitive edge.
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