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ABB Robotics

Industrial arms, cobots, OmniCore

CH$5.4B ABB Ltd-owned~7,000 staffest. 1974new.abb.com (opens new.abb.com)Checked 25 Sep

The brief

Analyst view
  • Being bought by SoftBank for about $5.4B, the core of SoftBank's physical-AI push.
  • Makes heavy industrial arms, YuMi and GoFa cobots and the OmniCore controller.
  • Roots go back to ASEA's IRB 6 (1974), one of the first all-electric, computer-controlled industrial robots.
Programs

ABB Robotics, one program

Updated 9 Jul 2026
Industrial robots and cobotsABB's range of industrial arms and cobots, run by OmniCore controllers and programmed in RobotStudio simulation software.ScalingUpdated 9 Jul 2026View program →
Research · Proto · Pilot · Deploy · Scaling

Peers

Factory arms · 1

Company & funding

Valuation
$5.4BABB Ltd-owned
Parent
ABB Ltd
Staff
~7,000as of 2025
HQ
CH
Founded
1974

Partners & customers

1 acquirer
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