Product profile
PoWa
PoWa is ABB's high-speed collaborative robot family combining fenceless collaborative safety with industrial-grade throughput for machine tending, handling...
Facts
- Company
- ABB
- Product type
- collaborative_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- machine_tending
- Website
- https://www.abb.com/global/en/areas/robotics/products/robots/collaborative-robots/powa
About PoWa
PoWa is ABB's high-speed collaborative robot family combining fenceless collaborative safety with industrial-grade throughput for machine tending, handling, palletizing, welding and screwdriving.
Market context
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Summary
Type: High-speed collaborative robot family
Core: Industrial throughput with fenceless safety
Function: Automates demanding handling and production tasks alongside people
Audience: Manufacturers and automation integrators
Specifications
- controller
- ABB OmniCore
- deployment_time
- Can be running in as little as 60 minutes min
- maximum_speed
- Exceeds 5 m/s with rated payload m/s
- payload_range
- 7–30 kg
- protection_rating
- Up to IP67
- reach_range
- 0.91–2.10 m, depending on variant
- safety
- Power and Force Limiting (PFL) and Speed and Separation Monitoring (SSM)
Operations
- Environment
- manufacturing_environment, brownfield_factory, shared_human_robot_workspace
- Primary user
- manufacturers, system_integrators, small_and_medium_manufacturers
- Role
- machine_tending, material_handling, palletizing, welding, screwdriving
- Interaction model
- collaborative_operation, no_code_programming, controller_programmed
- Mobility class
- fixed_base_robot_arm, collaborative_robot_arm
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ABB integrates NVIDIA Omniverse into RobotStudio — 2026-03-09
- SoftBank signs definitive agreement to acquire ABB Robotics — 2025-10-08
- ABB adds Visual SLAM and AMR Studio to Flexley Mover P604 — 2025-06-04
- YuMi redundancy-parameterization paper validates arm-angle kinematics — 2025-05-29
- Singularities of ABB’s YuMi 7-DOF robot arm — 2025-03-01
- Cuspidal-manipulator path-planning paper identifies ABB GoFa kinematic behavior — 2025-01-30
- ABB Flexley Tug T702 wins Advanced Manufacturing Award — 2024-11-29
- ABB launches Flexley AMR portfolio after integrating ASTI Mobile Robotics — 2022-09-22