Facts

• Company: ABB
• Product type: Robotic Arm
• Status: active
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.abb.com/global/en/areas/robotics/products/robots/collaborative-robots/dual-arm-yumi

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

YuMi IRB 14000 is ABB dual-arm collaborative robot for small-parts assembly. It combines two lightweight arms, integrated vision and safe human-robot collaboration for electronics, consumer goods and precision manufacturing tasks.

Overview

YuMi IRB 14000 is ABB dual-arm collaborative robot for small-parts assembly. It combines two lightweight arms, integrated vision and safe human-robot collaboration for electronics, consumer goods and precision manufacturing tasks.

Market context

YuMi is ABB dual-arm collaborative robot designed for small-parts assembly and fine industrial tasks requiring two-handed manipulation.

• Target environment: Factory floors and manufacturing workcells.
• Workflow context: Small-parts assembly, fine manipulation and two-handed industrial tasks in compact production environments.
• Customer context: Industrial manufacturers deploying dual-arm collaborative robots for assembly.
• Deployment model: Commercial product from ABB collaborative robot family.
• Commercial maturity: Established dual-arm cobot from a major industrial robotics OEM.
• Adoption constraints: Fixed mounting limits mobility. Designed for defined workcell assembly tasks.
• Market position: ABB dual-arm cobot for small-parts assembly and fine two-handed industrial tasks.
• Adjacent products: NEXTAGE, dual-arm industrial robots

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Small-parts assembly, fine manipulation and two-handed industrial tasks in compact production environments.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factory floors and manufacturing workcells.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Small-parts assembly, fine manipulation and two-handed industrial tasks in compact production environments.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factory floors and manufacturing workcells.

Specifications

• Payload Capacity: 500 g per arm
• Reach: 559 mm
• Axes: 14 axes total, 7 axes per arm
• Safety Features: Collaborative operation without fencing, padded arms, and real-time collision-free path algorithms
• Gripper: servo grippers; optional built-in cameras
• Controller: OmniCore controller with SafeMove
• Task Scope: Small-parts assembly and collaborative manipulation
• Operational Role: Dual-arm collaborative robot for small-parts assembly and human-adjacent manipulation workflows

Tags

• Peer Group: Cobot arm
• Workflow: Box handling
• Capability: Force control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 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.
• 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…
• 2019-01-01 - 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…
• 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.
• 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…

Comparable Systems

• LARA - Neura Robotics - Robotic Arm
• NEXTAGE - KAWADA Robotics Corporation - Robotic Arm
• DOBOT CR10 - Dobot - Industrial Cobot
• DOBOT CR5 - Dobot - Industrial Cobot
• DOBOT Magician Lite - Dobot - Robotic Arm