Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats

- Teradyne Robotics is done being flattered. After spotting suspicious similarities between its Universal Robots cobot arms and JAKA's lineup, Teradyne bought a JAKA unit, cracked it open, and filed a multi-patent infringement suit covering both hardware and software. This follows a February copyright win against Elite Robots in Hamburg — so the pattern is clear: copy the stack, catch the PoD audit. The case landed at the Unified Patent Court in Copenhagen, meaning a ruling could blanket 17 EU member states plus the U.K. and Spain. CTO David Brandt insists it's not about China — it's about anyone reverse-engineering years of R&D investment. "Whoa, that's mega-illegal," is roughly the engineering desk's read on shipping a clone bot into the same market as the original. Teradyne wants JAKA to stop, not pay. Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research — but only when you file your own patents first. «Mars University would call this adequate.»