# ros-industrial/universal_robot

ROS-Industrial Universal Robots support (https://wiki.ros.org/universal_robot)

Repository: https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/universal_robot
Language: C++
License Family: other
Topics: universal-robots, ur, ros-industrial, urdf, moveit
Last push: 2026-07-20T12:26:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4921, "days_push": 44, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1412, forks 1071 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.036247+00:00)

## What it is
A ROS-Industrial meta-package providing support for Universal Robots manipulators, including URDF descriptions, meshes, drivers, and MoveIt integration. It enables controlling and simulating UR cobots within the Robot Operating System ecosystem.

## Use cases
- control a UR5 robot arm from ROS
- simulate a UR10e in Gazebo with MoveIt motion planning
- get URDF descriptions and meshes for Universal Robots cobots
- integrate UR robots into an industrial ROS-Industrial workflow
- plan and execute pick-and-place trajectories on a UR robot
- set up a Catkin workspace with Universal Robots packages

## When to choose
- you use Universal Robots arms with ROS1 (Noetic or earlier)
- you need official URDF models, meshes, and MoveIt configs for UR robots
- you want the community-supported ROS-Industrial driver stack for UR cobots

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project on ROS 2 (use the Universal_Robots_ROS2_Driver instead)
- you need a non-ROS or vendor-independent robot control solution
- you require strict OSI-compliant licensing for all assets, since some UR meshes have restricted terms

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: simulation, robotics, sdk, developer-tools
- domain: robotics, developer-tools
- platform: cpp, python
- tags: universal-robots, ros-industrial, urdf, moveit, robot-arm, meta-package, catkin, automation, linux, ros

## Member repositories
- ros-industrial/universal_robot (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.036247+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:21.773124+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.036247+00:00, sha 84dc812f9675)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.