Collaborative Robots (Cobots) constitute a new class of industrial robot manipulators that are now becoming popular in tasks that require intelligent manipulation and human–robot interaction. The characteristic difference between these robots and the conventional industrial robots is the availability of force feedback from the wrist-force sensor. This allows the robot arm to avoid obstacles, detect variation in the part locations and estimate the type of objects being handled based on the weight or contact forces. Digital twin is the representation of a real-world object in a virtual environment. This allows the synchronization and replication of the motions of the robot present in the real world with that of the counterpart in a virtual environment and vice versa. This work is an initial attempt to develop a remote interface and a digital twin for a collaborative robot (Universal robot UR5e). Interfacing of the robot through Robotics Operating System (ROS) and the use of Unity3D for the development of the digital twin are reported here.