UR7e

The UR7e is not a new machine. On 12 May 2025, at the Automate fair in Detroit, Universal Robots announced that the UR5e would from then on be sold as the UR7e with a payload rating raised by 2.5 kg, and that the UR10e would become the UR12e. The company's own wording was that it was introducing clearer names and more power where it counts; the e-Series line-up became UR3e, UR7e, UR12e and UR16e, with the old names withdrawn from the catalogue the same day. Comparing the manufacturer's data sheets confirms that nothing moved on the mechanical side. Arm weight is 20.6 kg with the cable in both documents, reach is 850 mm, the base footprint is 151 mm across, pose repeatability stays at plus/minus 0.03 mm per ISO 9283, maximum tool centre point speed stays at 4 m/s, and the force-torque sensor keeps the same plus/minus 50 N and plus/minus 10 Nm range with plus/minus 4.0 N of accuracy. Power draw is unchanged as well: 570 W at maximum, about 200 W at moderate settings. The only figure that differs from the arm sold up to May 2025 is the payload itself. That makes the UR7e an unusual entry in any robot catalogue: a product launch in which the product is the previous product. Universal Robots states that every accessory, URCap and application kit built for the UR5e works with it, and that existing installations need no modification. In practice the rename is a correction of a label that had drifted away from the hardware, in the same way the UR10e had been rated at 12.5 kg since 2021 while still carrying the number ten in its name. What the buyer gets is the middle size of the e-Series. All six joints rotate 360 degrees in each direction at up to 180 degrees per second, and the tool flange turns without limit. The arm is IP54 and works from 0 to 50 degrees Celsius at up to 90 percent non-condensing humidity, with noise below 65 dB(A). Twenty-one configurable safety functions are certified to EN ISO 13849-1 PLd Category 3 and EN ISO 10218-1. The control box is IP44, weighs 12 kg, measures 460 by 449 by 254 mm and runs on 100-240 VAC at 47 to 440 Hz; it speaks Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET with PROFIsafe and ROS or ROS 2. Programming is done on a 12-inch PolyScope touchscreen. Universal Robots, founded in Odense and owned by Teradyne, sells through integrators and publishes no list price. Figures come from the manufacturer's UR7e technical data sheet updated in May 2025.

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