Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: Switzerland
• Website: https://new.abb.com/products/robotics

Profile sections

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

Summary

ABB Robotics supplies industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, machine automation and software for factory and logistics operations. Its systems are used for welding, painting, assembly, machine tending, palletizing, picking and other production workflows across automotive, electronics, food, logistics and general industry.

Market context

One of the largest industrial robotics businesses globally, now being acquired by SoftBank, representing a major shift in ownership of industrial automation infrastructure. ABB Robotics supplies industrial and collaborative robots, AMRs, controllers, application software and automation systems for factory and logistics workflows.

Products

• GoFa CRB 15000
• IRB 1300
• YuMi IRB 14000

Facts

• Website: https://new.abb.com/products/robotics
• HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
• Segment: Industrial

Industrial robotics and automation company

ABB Robotics supplies industrial robots, collaborative robots, AMRs, controllers, software and automation systems for manufacturing and logistics.

• Target environment: Factories, automotive plants, electronics production, logistics sites, laboratories and industrial automation workcells.
• Deployment model: Industrial robot hardware, AMRs, software, controllers, services and application systems supplied through global automation channels.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, automotive companies, electronics producers, logistics operators, laboratory automation users and system integrators.
• Workflow context: Welding, painting, assembly, palletizing, machine tending, laboratory automation, AMR transport and robot cell control.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially mature global robotics supplier with a broad industrial robotics portfolio and large installed base.
• Market position: Industrial robotics incumbent spanning robot arms, cobots, mobile robots and automation software.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on application fit, integration complexity, service support, capex cycles, safety validation and competition from other major robot OEMs.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes industrial robot arms, cobots, AMRs, RobotStudio-style simulation, factory automation and laboratory robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-16 - Partnership - ABB Robotics and PSYONIC use Ability Hand data to advance robot dexterity - The collaboration combines PSYONIC’s Ability Hand with ABB’s GoFa collaborative robot.
• 2026-05-28 - Research Publication - External force-torque sensor feedback on the ABB GoFa collaborative robot - The paper studies external force-torque sensor feedback on the ABB GoFa collaborative robot.
• 2026-05-05 - Product Launch - ABB Robotics launches PickMaster Lite for vision-guided robotic picking - ABB Robotics launched PickMaster Lite, a streamlined version of its PickMaster software suite for high-speed, visio…
• 2026-04-22 - Product Launch - ABB Robotics launches PoWa high-speed collaborative robot family - ABB Robotics launched the PoWa collaborative robot family for industrial-grade collaborative automation.
• 2026-04-08 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics signs collaboration with ABB Robotics to bring AI-powered palletizing to ABB's integrator network - ABB Robotics will integrate Jacobi's OmniPalletizer AI software into its rob…
• 2025-07-01 - Research Publication - Development of Educational Applications with ABB GoFa Collaborative Robot using Externally Guided Motion - The paper develops educational applications with the ABB GoFa collaborative…
• 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.
• 2025-01-30 - 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…
• 2024-07-24 - Research Publication - Implementación de un entorno virtual para teleoperación de robot colaborativo ABB GOFA usando movimiento guiado externamente (EGM) - The paper implements a virtual environment for tel…
• 2024-06-04 - Product Launch - ABB launches OmniCore robot control platform - OmniCore launched as ABB’s next-generation robot control platform.
• 2022-12-02 - Facility Opening - ABB opens USD 150M robotics factory in Shanghai - The facility represented a USD 150 million investment.
• 2021-04-26 - Partnership - Schaeffler collaborates with ABB Robotics on automation and smart factory technologies - Companies collaborate on industrial automation systems used in manufacturing environments.
• 2021-02-24 - Product Launch - ABB launches GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families - The cobots complemented YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABB collaborative automation portfolio.
• 2016-09-23 - Demonstration - ABB Robotics Uses 3D Printing for Functional Prototyping - • ABB Robotics utilized the Ultimaker 2 Extended+ 3D printer to create prototype fingers for their YuMi robot.

Operations / Deployments

• 2022-12-02 - Facility Opening - ABB opens USD 150M robotics factory in Shanghai - The facility represented a USD 150 million investment.
• 2021-04-26 - Partnership - Schaeffler collaborates with ABB Robotics on automation and smart factory technologies - Companies collaborate on industrial automation systems used in manufacturing environments.

Team

• Marc Segura - President, ABB Robotics
• Henry Han - President of Robotics in China
• Xu Feng - Head of R&D, ABB Robotics Division in China

Supply chain relationships

• Schaeffler AG - integration - Integration of ABB Robotics automation systems with Schaeffler production; smart factory technologies.
• Jacobi Robotics - technology_partner - ABB Robotics integrates Jacobi's OmniPalletizer AI into its robotics portfolio for ABB's integrator network in mixed-case palletizing.
• Skild AI - integration - Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics to integrate Skild Brain into industrial robot portfolios.

Relationships

• ABB - subsidiary - ABB Robotics is the robotics division of ABB (prior to SoftBank acquisition).
• SoftBank - acquired_company - ABB agreed to sell the ABB Robotics business to SoftBank Group for USD 5.375 billion.
• SoftBank - acquisition - SoftBank Group agreed to acquire the ABB Robotics business for USD 5.375 billion.
• PSYONIC - Dexterous manipulation data - ABB Robotics and PSYONIC are combining PSYONIC Ability Hand touch and human-use data with ABB GoFa cobots to improve robotic dexterity.
• SoftBank - acquired_company - SoftBank has a public acquisition relationship with ABB Robotics.
• Mbodi AI - Commercialization partner - Mbodi AI says it is rolling out real-world industrial-robot deployments with ABB as a joint commercialization partner.

Context tags

• Industrial robot arm builder - Peer Group
• Industrial robotics full-stack builder - Peer Group
• Collaborative robot arm builder - Peer Group
• Industrial robot cell deployment - Workflow
• Robot arm OEM - Stack Layer
• Industrial robot OEM - Stack Layer
• Collaborative factory automation - Workflow
• Industrial welding - Workflow
• Factories - Customer Environment

Customers and deployments

• Production Capacity - $150 million robotics mega-factory - 2022-12-02 - ABB Robotics - Shanghai, China - ABB opened a $150 million robotics mega-factory in Shanghai as a flexible factory and open lab for next-generation…

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…