Company profile
ABB
ABB supplies electrification, motion and automation technologies. Its current robotics exposure includes industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mo...
Facts
- Segment
- INDUSTRIAL
- Country
- CH
- Headquarters
- Zurich
- Founded
- 1988
- Ticker
- ABB
- Website
- https://global.abb
About ABB
ABB supplies electrification and automation technologies for industry, infrastructure, transport and energy systems. Its Robotics division combines industrial and collaborative robot arms, autonomous mobile robots, controllers, application solutions, RobotStudio engineering software and fleet tools. These systems support handling, assembly, welding, painting, machine tending, inspection and intralogistics across automotive, electronics, logistics and general manufacturing.
ABB Robotics operates through more than 100 locations in approximately 53 countries and employs about 11,000 people. In October 2025, ABB agreed to sell the division to SoftBank for an enterprise value of $5.375 billion. The business remained classified by ABB as held for sale and discontinued operations at 30 June 2026, with completion expected in the second half of the year subject to regulatory approval.
Market context
DEPLOYMENT
Summary
Type: Automation group
Core: ABB Robotics
Function: Flexible production
Audience: Manufacturers
Products
- ABB Flexley Mover — amr
- IRB 1200 Next Generation — industrial
- OmniCore — software
- RobotStudio Suite — software
- SWIFTI (CRB 1100) — collaborative_robot
- SWIFTI CRB 1300 — collaborative_robot
- YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) — robotic_arm
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ABB integrates NVIDIA Omniverse into RobotStudio — 2026-03-09
- SoftBank signs definitive agreement to acquire ABB Robotics — 2025-10-08
- ABB adds Visual SLAM and AMR Studio to Flexley Mover P604 — 2025-06-04
- YuMi redundancy-parameterization paper validates arm-angle kinematics — 2025-05-29
- Singularities of ABB’s YuMi 7-DOF robot arm — 2025-03-01
- Cuspidal-manipulator path-planning paper identifies ABB GoFa kinematic behavior — 2025-01-30
- ABB Flexley Tug T702 wins Advanced Manufacturing Award — 2024-11-29
- ABB launches Flexley AMR portfolio after integrating ASTI Mobile Robotics — 2022-09-22