Cyber-physical systems are the active and bidirectional linking of real systems with their digital twin. In the Cyber Physical Robotics (CPRob) research group, we exploit this coupling as an advantage for the automation industry. To this end, we are researching topics such as virtual collaboration and generalized virtualization of robots. To this end, we develop systems based on information models of robotics and design extended information models in order to be able to depict new types of robots, such as soft robots.