diff --git a/universal_robot/package.xml b/universal_robot/package.xml
index f1acd36a9180eb5447c16f8ec4672eab077acd1f..a18554146855d51f432e10010c3071224136ba05 100644
--- a/universal_robot/package.xml
+++ b/universal_robot/package.xml
@@ -19,20 +19,7 @@
   <author email="fxm@ipa.fhg.de">Felix Messmer</author>
 
   <buildtool_depend>catkin</buildtool_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur3_moveit_config</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur5_moveit_config</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur10_moveit_config</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_bringup</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_description</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_driver</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_gazebo</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_kinematics</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_msgs</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_e_description</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur_e_gazebo</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur3_e_moveit_config</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur5_e_moveit_config</run_depend>
-  <run_depend>ur10_e_moveit_config</run_depend>
+  <run_depend>universal_robots</run_depend>
 
   <export>
     <metapackage/>
diff --git a/universal_robots/CMakeLists.txt b/universal_robots/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a8bb8f3bfdcb3ef9b9b8bfdf96dfd1cfbb58324
--- /dev/null
+++ b/universal_robots/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
+project(universal_robots)
+find_package(catkin REQUIRED)
+catkin_metapackage()
diff --git a/universal_robots/package.xml b/universal_robots/package.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36d832d45aeef9cd7a5a558fe8d67bf641fc23d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/universal_robots/package.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
+<package format="2">
+  <name>universal_robots</name>
+  <version>1.2.1</version>
+  <description>ROS-Industrial support for Universal Robots manipulators (metapackage).</description>
+  <author>Felix Messmer</author>
+  <author>Kelsey Hawkins</author>
+  <author>Shaun Edwards</author>
+  <author>Stuart Glaser</author>
+  <author>Wim Meeussen</author>
+  <maintainer email="g.a.vanderhoorn@tudelft.nl">G.A. vd. Hoorn (TU Delft Robotics Institute)</maintainer>
+  <maintainer email="nhg@ipa.fhg.de">Nadia Hammoudeh Garcia</maintainer>
+  <license>BSD</license>
+
+  <url type="website">http://wiki.ros.org/universal_robots</url>
+  <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot/issues</url>
+  <url type="repository">https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot</url>
+
+  <buildtool_depend>catkin</buildtool_depend>
+
+  <exec_depend>ur10_e_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur10_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur3_e_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur3_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur5_e_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur5_moveit_config</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_bringup</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_description</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_driver</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_e_description</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_e_gazebo</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_gazebo</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_kinematics</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>ur_msgs</exec_depend>
+
+  <export>
+    <metapackage/>
+    <architecture_independent/>
+    <ros_industrial>
+      <support_level value="community" />
+    </ros_industrial>
+  </export>
+</package>