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Teradyne and Chinese cobot maker Elite Robots settled a separate legal dispute by agreement.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“Pending legal dispute between Elite Robots and Teradyne Robotics resolved by mutual agreement”
What it means
Collaborative robot arms, from Universal Robots, FANUC, ABB, and others, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Collaborative robot arms
- Universal Robots showed Gen 7, an upgraded version of its cobot system, at a trade show in Chicago.
- Teradyne, which owns Universal Robots, sued a German arm of Chinese cobot maker JAKA in a European patent court, saying JAKA's cobots copy its patented hardware and software.
- Universal Robots said it had sold more than 100,000 cobots worldwide.
- Universal Robots, a Danish company, sold its first collaborative robot arm.