Robot companies and manufacturers in Switzerland

ABB Robotics is a maker of industrial and collaborative robots, based in Zurich, Switzerland, with its main factories in Shanghai, Västerås in Sweden and Auburn Hills in Michigan. It traces its roots to 1974, when ABB predecessor ASEA introduced the IRB 6, credited as the first all-electric, microprocessor-controlled commercial industrial robot. The range covers IRB industrial arms for welding, painting, machine tending and palletizing, the GoFa, SWIFTI, YuMi and PoWa cobots, and Flexley mobile robots for intralogistics, serving automotive, electronics, logistics and healthcare sites.

Makes PF3, TS2-40, TS2-60, TS2-80 and 9 more.

Makes Andago, ArmeoPower, ArmeoSpring, Erigo and 1 more.

Makes RA660 Navi, RA660 Navi XL and S170 Navi.

ANYbotics is a Zurich company founded in 2016 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich's legged robotics research. It builds ANYmal, a four-legged robot that carries visual, thermal and acoustic sensors on autonomous inspection rounds through industrial plants, climbing stairs and crossing rough ground, and ANYmal X, an explosion-proof version certified for Zone 1 hazardous areas. Its customers run power plants and utilities, mines and metals sites, oil and gas facilities, chemical plants and railways, and plan and review routine inspection missions in its software.

Makes the Ascento Guard.

Makes the Dexter.