# Connecting to a Universal Robot (UR5e) to Ignition 8.1 and 7.9 via Modbus **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition79, ignition81, database, scripting\ **Created:** [April 16, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-a-universal-robot-ur5e-to-ignition-8-1-and-7-9-via-modbus/105202 "2025-04-16T21:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-a-universal-robot-ur5e-to-ignition-8-1-and-7-9-via-modbus/105202/5 "2025-04-17T10:23:55Z")
Is this related to this thread, by chance? Two threads about the exact same robot model in as many days. More out of curiosity than anything, as we're still happy to help. > [@Connecting to a Universal Robot for read and write](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-a-universal-robot-for-read-and-write/105097): > > Hi I am very new to Ignition and I am trying to set up communication between a Universal Robots UR5e and Ignition, Ignition would be used to create the user interface, before this I need to be able to pass data between the cobot and Ignition. I reached out to UR and they suggested using Modbus, is this the best way? I guess I need to setup registers on the cobot which ignition can read and write to, is this the way to go? Have someone done this before, please advice --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-a-universal-robot-ur5e-to-ignition-8-1-and-7-9-via-modbus/105202)._