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Company

ABB Robotics

Customers
Volvo (1,300 robots for EV production) [1]
Deployment
Volvo EV production lines — 1,300 modular industrial robots [1]
Deployment
Texas Children's Hospital — YuMi cobot in neurological research [2]
Deployment
BurgerBots restaurant — IRB360 FlexPicker and YuMi preparing fast food [3]
Founded
1971 [4]
Headquarters
Zurich, Switzerland [5] [6] [7] sources disagree
Partners
NVIDIA (Omniverse in RobotStudio) [8]
Partners
PSYONIC (prosthetic touch data for robot dexterity) [9]

Timeline

  1. PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity The Robot Report
  2. ABB Robotics Taps NVIDIA Omniverse to Deliver Industrial‑Grade Physical AI at Scale NVIDIA
  3. ABB Robotics seeks to standardize measurement of robot energy consumption The Robot Report
  4. SoftBank bulks up its robotics portfolio with ABB Group’s robotics unit TechCrunch
  5. SoftBank buys $5.4 bn robotics firm to advance 'physical AI' TechXplore
  6. ABB Robotics adds generative AI assistant to RobotStudio Suite The Robot Report
  7. BurgerBots opens restaurant with ABB robots preparing fast food The Robot Report
  8. Texas Children’s Hospital transfers fruit flies with ABB YuMi cobot for neurological research The Robot Report
  9. Volvo deploys 1,300 ABB robots for electric vehicle production The Robot Report
  10. ABB expands educational robots with IRB 1090 The Robot Report
  11. ABB transforms AMR performance with launch of Visual SLAM technology The Robot Report

References

  1. therobotreport.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Volvo deploys 1,300 ABB robots for electric vehicle production
  2. therobotreport.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Texas Children’s Hospital transfers fruit flies with ABB YuMi cobot for neurological research
  3. therobotreport.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    BurgerBots uses ABB's IRB360 FlexPicker and YuMi to address needs for consistency and speed
  4. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  5. global.abb — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  6. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Zurich, Switzerland-based ABB Group’s robotics business unit
  7. therobotreport.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    headquarters and factory are in Auburn Hills, Mich.
  8. blogs.nvidia.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    ABB Robotics and NVIDIA today announced a breakthrough partnership that brings industrial‑grade physical AI to the factory floor.
  9. therobotreport.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity