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Teradyne's subsidiary Universal Robots integrated NVIDIA's cuMotion AI path-planning software into its collaborative robot arms, making collision-free path planning up to 50–80 times faster than previous solutions. This capability was announced in March 2024 and is available to customers through UR's PolyScope X software platform.

Details

The integration combines the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin edge-compute module, the cuMotion path planner from NVIDIA's Isaac Manipulator platform, and Universal Robots' PolyScope X software. The AI system calculates collision-free trajectories by simultaneously evaluating many possible paths in parallel, and can also optimize for criteria such as speed, energy efficiency, and minimal wear. Universal Robots confirmed the capability through a company press release and it was demonstrated at NVIDIA GTC 2024. The UR AI Accelerator toolkit, launched in late 2024, provides developers broader access to NVIDIA Isaac platform libraries for building AI-powered robotics applications on UR hardware.

Products affected

Universal Robots UR5ePolyScope XUR AI Accelerator

Sources & Evidence

Company Disclosure

Universal Robots Accelerates Cobot Development with NVIDIA

NVIDIA·Nov 2024

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/universal-robots-accelerates-cobot-development-with-nvidia/

Company Disclosure

Teradyne Robotics to Bring the Power of AI to Robotics with NVIDIA

Teradyne Investor Relations·Mar 2024

https://investors.teradyne.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/32/teradyne-robotics-to-bring-the-power-of-ai-to-robotics-with-nvidia

News Article

Teradyne Robotics announces collaboration with NVIDIA

Robotics 24/7·Apr 2024

https://www.robotics247.com/article/teradyne_robotics_announces_collaboration_with_nvidia/NVIDIA

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). Universal Robots: Teradyne's subsidiary Universal Robots integrated NVIDIA's cuMotion AI path-planning software into its collaborative robot arms, making collision-free path planning up to 50–80 times faster than previous solutions. This capability was announced in March 2024 and is available to customers through UR's PolyScope X software platform (data as of 2026-07-09) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/04339486-5f96-4ab4-bdee-044ccfcf8fdb. Accessed October 8, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/04339486-5f96-4ab4-bdee-044ccfcf8fdb
Data as of: July 9, 2026
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Other practices by Universal Robots

OtherTeradyne's subsidiary Universal Robots offers the UR AI Trainer, a hardware-software system built with Scale AI that allows robot operators to teach robots new tasks by physically guiding them through the motions, with the system capturing synchronized motion, force, and visual data to train AI models directly on production-grade robot hardware. The system was launched at NVIDIA GTC in March 2026.

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