Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: Switzerland
• Founded: 1988
• Website: https://global.abb

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

ABB provides electrification, automation, motion and robotics technologies for industrial, infrastructure and energy customers. Its robotics relevance spans industrial robot arms, autonomous mobile robots, drives, motors, control systems and software used to automate factories, warehouses and production equipment.

Market context

ABB represents real-world deployment at scale. While much of the robotics narrative focuses on future systems (humanoids, AI agents), ABB is already embedded in global manufacturing infrastructure. It provides direct exposure to the ongoing automation of industrial production — a trend that continues to compound regardless of hype cycles. PURE_PLAY within robotics division; ABB overall is diversified. Infrastructure layer of industrial robotics: industrial robotic arms, factory automation, machine tending / welding / assembly, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) via ABB Robotics division.

Products

• Flexley Mover - Flexley Mover
• GoFa (CRB 15000) - GoFa
• IRB 1200 Next Generation - IRB
• OmniCore - OmniCore
• RobotStudio - RobotStudio
• SWIFTI (CRB 1100) - SWIFTI
• SWIFTI (CRB 1300) - SWIFTI
• YuMi (IRB 14000 Dual-arm) - YuMi

Facts

• Website: https://global.abb
• HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
• Founded: 1988
• Ticker: ABB / NYSE
• Segment: Industrial

Industrial and collaborative robotics at global factory scale

ABB Robotics supplies industrial robots, collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, controllers, software, application solutions, equipment and services. Its official robotics portfolio spans automotive, electronics, logistics and other production environments that need repeatable automation at scale.

• Target environment: Automotive plants, electronics manufacturing, logistics operations, general industrial production, application cells and factory automation programs.
• Deployment model: Global robotics supplier model built around robot hardware, controllers, AMRs, RobotStudio software, application solutions, services and systems-integration support.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, logistics operators, systems integrators, automation teams and industrial customers standardizing repeatable production or material-handling workflows.
• Workflow context: Material handling, machine tending, welding, cutting, assembly, testing, inspection, dispensing, grinding, polishing, palletizing, picking, packing and broader factory automation.
• Commercial maturity: Mature global robotics supplier with a broad installed base and public portfolio. Its strongest exposure is deployed industrial automation rather than experimental embodied AI.
• Market position: Large incumbent robotics and automation supplier in the industrial robot, cobot, AMR and factory software layer.
• Adoption constraints: Capital expenditure cycles, integration cost, customer process readiness, safety validation, application engineering capacity, local service requirements and competition from other industrial robot…
• Adjacent context: Industrial robots, collaborative robots, AMRs, factory automation, robot controllers, robot simulation software and industrial systems integration.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-09 - Partnership - ABB integrates NVIDIA Omniverse into RobotStudio - • ABB Robotics announced the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into its RobotStudio software.
• 2025-10-08 - Acquisition - SoftBank agrees to acquire ABB's Robotics business - SoftBank Group entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ABB's Robotics business for a total purchase price of USD 5.375 billion.
• 2025-06-04 - Product Launch - ABB adds Visual SLAM and AMR Studio to Flexley Mover P604 - The launch added AI-powered 3D Visual SLAM navigation to the Flexley Mover P604 AMR.
• 2025-05-29 - Research Publication - YuMi redundancy-parameterization paper validates arm-angle kinematics - The paper defines and validates the Shoulder-Elbow-Wrist angle used by the 7-DOF ABB YuMi arm.
• 2025-03-01 - Research Publication - Singularities of ABB’s YuMi 7-DOF robot arm - The paper studies singularities of ABB’s YuMi 7-DOF robot arm.
• 2025-01-30 - Research Publication - Cuspidal-manipulator path-planning paper identifies ABB GoFa kinematic behavior - The paper studies path planning for cuspidal 6R manipulators, where inverse-kinematics branch choices…
• 2024-11-29 - Market Signal - ABB Flexley Tug T702 wins Advanced Manufacturing Award - ABB's Flexley Tug T702 with Visual SLAM and AMR Studio won the Smart Factory award for Best Connected Production Line.
• 2022-09-22 - Product Launch - ABB launches Flexley AMR portfolio after integrating ASTI Mobile Robotics - ABB launched its first range of rebranded autonomous mobile robots after acquiring ASTI Mobile Robotics.
• 2021-07-20 - Acquisition - ABB agrees to acquire ASTI Mobile Robotics Group - ABB announced it would acquire ASTI Mobile Robotics Group, a global autonomous mobile robot manufacturer.
• 2021-02-22 - Product Launch - ABB launches GoFa cobot with 5kg payload and 950mm reach - ABB's GoFa CRB 15000 cobot has a 5kg payload and a reach of 950mm.
• 2020-06-01 - Research Publication - Research on virtual simulation design of ABB robot welding operation based on Robotstudio - The IEEE conference paper studies virtual-simulation design for ABB robot welding operation…
• 2020-04-20 - Research Publication - X-Ray: Mechanical Search for an Occluded Object by Minimizing Support of Learned Occupancy Distributions - For applications in e-commerce, warehouses, healthcare, and home service, ro…
• 2020-03-28 - Research Publication - Learning Dense Visual Correspondences in Simulation to Smooth and Fold Real Fabrics - Robotic fabric manipulation is challenging due to the infinite dimensional configuration space, s…
• 2020-03-03 - Research Publication - Learning Rope Manipulation Policies Using Dense Object Descriptors Trained on Synthetic Depth Data - Robotic manipulation of deformable 1D objects such as ropes, cables, and hoses is…
• 2020-02-08 - Research Publication - Tactile Dexterity: Manipulation Primitives with Tactile Feedback - This paper develops closed-loop tactile controllers for dexterous robotic manipulation with a dual-palm robotic syst…
• 2019-07-10 - Research Publication - Bayesian Optimization in Variational Latent Spaces with Dynamic Compression - Data-efficiency is crucial for autonomous robots to adapt to new tasks and environments. In this work we…
• 2019-04-25 - Research Publication - Dexterous Manipulation Graph paper demonstrates dual-arm regrasping on ABB YuMi - The paper introduces Dexterous Manipulation Graphs for planning in-hand manipulation and regrasping w…
• 2019-02-07 - Product Launch - ABB reports 2018 growth with orders up 8% and Robotics & Motion strength - ABB's full-year 2018 orders reached approximately 28.590 billion USD, marking an 8% increase.
• 2019-01-01 - Research Publication - Neural Network Model for Identifying Workspace, Forward and Inverse Kinematics of the 7-DOF YuMi 14000 ABB Collaborative Robot - The paper models workspace and kinematics for the ABB…
• 2018-10-10 - Research Publication - Global Search with Bernoulli Alternation Kernel for Task-oriented Grasping Informed by Simulation - We develop an approach that benefits from large simulated datasets and takes full a…
• 2017-09-19 - Research Publication - Dex-Net 3.0: Computing Robust Robot Vacuum Suction Grasp Targets in Point Clouds using a New Analytic Model and Deep Learning - Vacuum-based end effectors are widely used in industry…
• 2017-06-01 - Research Publication - Dual quaternion based kinematic control for Yumi dual arm robot - The paper presents dual-quaternion kinematic control for the YuMi dual-arm robot.
• 2017-03-27 - Research Publication - Dex-Net 2.0: Deep Learning to Plan Robust Grasps with Synthetic Point Clouds and Analytic Grasp Metrics - To reduce data collection time for deep learning of robust robotic grasp plan…
• 2015-04-13 - Product Launch - ABB introduces YuMi, world's first truly collaborative dual-arm robot - ABB introduced YuMi (IRB 14000), a dual-arm collaborative robot designed for small-parts assembly and safe human-robo…

Team

• Morten Wierod - Chief Executive Officer
• Christian Nilsson - Chief Financial Officer
• Mathias Gaertner - General Counsel and Company Secretary

Supply chain relationships

• SCHUNK - SCHUNK gripping systems - SCHUNK says its gripping systems integrate into ABB robotics solutions.

Relationships

• NVIDIA - Robotstudio Sim2real - ABB Robotics integrates NVIDIA Omniverse and AI into RobotStudio for sim-to-real robotics development and digital twin workflows.
• ABB Robotics - subsidiary - ABB Robotics is the robotics division of ABB (prior to SoftBank acquisition).

Context tags

• Industrial motion control - Capability - ABB provides industrial motion control for robot arm movement.
• Industrial robot arm builder - Peer Group - ABB builds industrial robot arms for manufacturing and production automation.
• Machine tending - Workflow - ABB robots load and tend production machinery and equipment.
• Assembly automation - Workflow - ABB robots support assembly, insertion and fastening workflows.
• Collaborative safety control - Capability - ABB collaborative robots include safety-rated human-adjacent operation.
• Robot arm OEM - Stack Layer - ABB builds complete industrial and collaborative robot arm systems.
• Collaborative robot arm builder - Peer Group - ABB offers collaborative robot arm lines including GoFa and SWIFTI.
• Industrial pick and place - Workflow - ABB robots perform pick-and-place, sorting and material handling.
• Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - ABB robots are deployed in factory automation cells.

Customers and deployments

• Facility Event - 1 source-backed facility/manufacturing event - 2010-04-30 - ABB inaugurates expanded high-power semiconductor manufacturing unit in Lenzburg - source posture: Third Party Reported

Articles

• 2024-06-04 - ABB Robotics is building OmniCore into a robot control architecture - A June 4, 2024 OmniCore launch, 170 million dollar platform investment, and sub-0.6 mm path accuracy give ABB Robotics a controller-stac…