# ABB Robotics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/abb-robotics/  
**Website:** https://global.abb/group/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 20.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (4)

- **ABB Robot Web Services (RWS)** — 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...
- **ABB Robot Web Services Subscriptions** — WebSocket-based subscription service that pushes change events for subscribed RWS resources (IO signals, RAPID symbols, controller state, execution state, e-log, motion system)....
- **ABB PC SDK** — 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...
- **ABB RobotStudio SDK** — 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...

## Security (1)

- **Abb Robotics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing, Robot Controllers, OmniCore, RobotStudio, RAPID, Collaborative Robots, Cobots, Welding, Painting, Material Handling, Picking and Packing, Discrete Automation, Robot Web Services, REST, WebSockets

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/abb-robotics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.