ABB Robotics is the robotics and discrete-automation business of ABB Ltd, the Swiss-Swedish multinational headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB was formed in 1988 from the merger of ASEA (Sweden) and Brown, Boveri & Cie (Switzerland), with ASEA's IRB 6 (1974) considered the world's first microprocessor-controlled industrial robot. ABB Robotics manufactures a broad portfolio of articulated industrial robots, collaborative robots (GoFa, SWIFTI, YuMi), delta robots (FlexPicker / IRB 360), painting and welding robots, and autonomous mobile robots, paired with the OmniCore family of controllers running RobotWare 7 and the RAPID programming language. The developer surface is anchored by Robot Web Services (RWS) — a RESTful HTTP/HTTPS API for IO, RAPID, motion, file service, controller, e-log, subscriptions over WebSockets, and user authentication — plus the PC SDK (.NET) for native controller applications and the RobotStudio SDK (.NET 10 / RobotStudio 2026) for building Add-Ins and SmartComponents. RobotStudio Cloud extends offline programming and simulation into a collaborative browser surface. ABB also boosts RobotStudio with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for AI-driven simulation. The company sells robots, controllers, software licenses, and PowerPac add-ons; RobotStudio Basic is free, RobotStudio Premium is sold by annual subscription via local sales.
ABB Robotics is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing, and Robot Controllers.
The ABB Robotics catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
ABB Robotics’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, engineering blog, support, YouTube channel, and 35 more developer resources.
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Robot Web Services is the canonical REST/HTTP(S) API exposed by ABB OmniCore (RobotWare 7) and IRC5 controllers. It provides programmatic access to RAPID program data and execut...
The PC SDK is a .NET software development kit that lets system integrators, third parties, and end users build custom PC applications and RobotStudio Add-Ins that communicate wi...
The RobotStudio SDK enables developers to build custom applications, Add-Ins, and SmartComponents that extend RobotStudio. The current version targets RobotStudio 2026 and is bu...
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