The ABB Robotic Item Picker determines the optimal grasp points for each item before the suction gripper picks up and places the item into designated bins.

ABB Robotics is introducing VSLAM to its Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). ABB AMRs can use their surroundings to plan and avoid obstacles.

Nearly 90% of ABB robots delivered to customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America will soon be made in Auburn Hills, Mich.

The system, created by ABB and UTMB, can increase the number of neutralizing antibody tests performed from 15 a day to over 1,000 daily. 

The ABB SWIFTI CRB 1300 robot arm combines industrial robot speed, payload, and accuracy with collaborative robot safety.

New features in RobotStudio Cloud include version control, which allows users to keep track of changes and have full transparency of any amendments.

ABB opened a new 67,000-square-meter robotics factory in Kangquiao, Shanghai, China last week.

The IRB 1010 has a reach of 370 mm (14.5 inches), repeatability of 0.01 mm and can handle payloads up to 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).

ABB announced that it entered into a strategic partnership with Scalable Robotics to enhance its portfolio of robotic welding systems.

The launch of ASTI as ABB Flexley includes a complete rebranding of all the ASTI solutions, offices and facilities.

The new ABB IRB 365 FlexPicker can pick, reorient and place 1 kg products 120 times per minute.

A survey from ABB found that 62% of U.S. companies indicated that they will invest in robotics and automation in the next three years. 

PickNik Robotics and Optimax Systems released a ROS 2 driver for ABB manipulators. The package has been tested with an ABB IRB 1200-5/0.9 manipulator.

The ABB Depalletizer Solution uses vision guidance to easily identify boxes to pick from a pallet, regardless of size and orientation.

Mark Joppru, the former vice president of ABB USA’s Consumer Segments and Service Robotics division, has joined the MiR team.

Software uses vision technology to deliver 70% increase in speed and 50% increase in accuracy for select ABB industrial robots.

For the month of April, an ABB robot will be 3D printing designer furniture, houseware and other objects in a window at Selfridges in London.

Available in eight variants, the IRB 5710 and IRB 5720 present a choice of options for payloads from 70 kg to 180 kg.

Scania is investing more than $108 million into the Södertälje plant, which is expected to be fully operational by 2023.

The partnership, which includes a 40% stake by ABB in the joint venture, will expand the use of smart technologies and artificial intelligence within the industry.

ABB said both controllers include more than 1,000 hardware and software functions encompassing areas such as programming, offline commissioning and simulation, maintenance, vision and safety.

ABB integrated a two-arm YuMi cobot onto an AMR from PAL Robotics at a new lab in Spain.