The certified Olis® Connect device and URCap software enables remote operators to monitor industrial robots and quickly identify and resolve operational issues using teleoperation.

Seattle, Washington, Oct. 26, 2021. Olis® Connect is the first plug and play product for remote monitoring and teleoperation of industrial robot arms. It can move a majority of a robot operator's work online thanks to real-time video feeds, video-based email notifications and the ability to manually drive the robot directly in the browser. "The timing of Olis Connect is perfect. Given crushing labor shortages combined with concerns about resiliency and scalability of supply chains, the opportunity for a product like ours is excellent" according to Fredrik Ryden, CEO of Olis Robotics. The Olis Connect system is now part of the UR+ program that tests and certifies products for seamless use with cobots from Universal Robots.

Chris Savoia, UR+ Manager at Universal Robots, welcomes Olis Connect into the UR+ product portfolio: "The hardest part of most robotic automation projects is the last 10 centimeters, right before the robot interacts with the workpiece. This is where you need the most precision, the most special tooling, the most likely place that workpieces are found out of alignment," he says, emphasizing how Olis Connect gives customers the flexibility to operate the Universal Robot remotely to account for variability and recover from downtime. "When running lights-out or unmanned production, this is a product that gives manufacturers peace of mind."
Olis Connect is Plug and Play. Setup can be completed by the end-user in less than 30 minutes. By adopting Olis Connect, a small manufacturer can move from 12- to 24-hour production without significantly staffing up. Using Olis Connect, root cause failure analysis can start within minutes of a stoppage, not hours and days. With Olis Connect, every industrial robot will have a reliable fallback in case anything goes wrong. This can facilitate accelerated adoption of AI algorithms for robot control.

About Olis Robotics. Established in 2013, the company is a spinoff from the University of Washington located in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. The innovative industrial telerobotic solutions of Olis Robotics are the result of R&D with the US Navy and NASA. Olis Robotics has taken this technology developed for challenging remote robot operation environments and optimized it for industrial automation applications. For more information, visit https://olisrobotics.com.

About Universal Robotics. Universal Robots aims to empower change in the way work is done using its leading-edge robotics platform. Since introducing the world's first commercially viable collaborative robot (cobot) in 2008, UR has developed a product portfolio including the UR3e, UR5e, UR10e, and UR16e, reflecting a range of reaches and payloads. Each model is supported by a wide range of end-effectors, software, accessories and application kits in the UR+ ecosystem. This allows the cobots to be used across a wide range of industries and means that they can be flexibly redeployed across diverse tasks. The company, which is part of Teradyne Inc., is headquartered in Odense, Denmark and has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Turkey, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Mexico. Universal Robots has installed over 50,000 cobots worldwide. Learn more: www.universal-robots.com