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ABB Robotics

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.

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Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles ABB Robotics the way a machine reads it — 21 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ABB Robotics scores 20.2/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0
ABB Robotics Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile ABB Robotics

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ABB Robotics. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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...

Features 15

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

OmniCore controllers (C30, C90XT, V250XT, E10) running RobotWare 7 and RAPID
IRC5 controllers (legacy installed base) supporting RWS 1.0
Robot Web Services (RWS) — RESTful HTTP/HTTPS API with XML and JSON (HAL) representations
RWS Subscriptions delivered over WebSockets for low-latency event streams
PC SDK (.NET) for custom PC operator interfaces and RobotStudio Add-Ins
RobotStudio SDK (.NET 10 / RobotStudio 2026) for Add-Ins and SmartComponents
RobotStudio Cloud — browser-based collaborative offline programming
NVIDIA Omniverse integration for AI-driven simulation in RobotStudio
Externally Guided Motion (EGM, 689-1) for real-time external motion control
PowerPacs for welding, picking, painting, machine tending, palletizing
Collaborative robot families (GoFa, SWIFTI, YuMi) with integrated safety
Delta robot IRB 360 FlexPicker for high-speed picking and packing
Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) portfolio acquired via ASTI Mobile Robotics
Digest authentication for RWS, with session cookies (ABBCX, http-session)
Community ROS-Industrial drivers (abb_librws, abb_libegm) and Python (abb_robot_client)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Abb Robotics Context

7 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Abb Robotics Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for ABB Robotics — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of ABB Robotics, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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