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ABB Robotics alternatives

Standardising on ABB Robotics usually means valuing depth: industrial and collaborative systems, roughly 7,000 robotics employees and service coverage in more than 50 countries. Even committed ABB buyers sometimes look sideways — for humanoid form factors ABB does not emphasise, for younger vendors, or because ABB agreed in October 2025 to sell this business to SoftBank Group, which leaves its long-term direction under new ownership. AGIBOT is the humanoid contrast: founded in Shanghai in February 2023, building general-purpose humanoids and embodied AI with backing reported from Hillhouse, Tencent, BYD and Warburg Pincus, and already selling worldwide through its own store. Agility Robotics, spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, offers a humanoid aimed squarely at warehousing, distribution and manufacturing, with US$884M raised and a November 2026 PIPE financing tied to a Nasdaq-listed vehicle. AUBO Robotics covers the collaborative end from Beijing, with production in Changzhou and Zibo and lightweight six-axis cobots working in automotive, 3C electronics, education and commercial services across more than 50 countries. Boston Dynamics brings mobile platforms instead: the Waltham company, an MIT spin-off dating to 1992 and now a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary, sells Spot and Stretch commercially to industrial, enterprise and research customers worldwide. Pick AGIBOT for a newer humanoid platform, Agility for warehouse humanoid work in the Americas, AUBO for cobot cells, and Boston Dynamics when the requirement moves on legs or wheels rather than a fixed arm.

Alternatives to ABB Robotics

AGIBOT

AGIBOT (AGIBOT Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., known in China as Zhiyuan Robotics) is a Shanghai embodied-AI company founded in February 2023 that designs general-purpose robots and the AI models that run them, organised around what it calls "one robotic body, three intelligences" — locomotion, interaction and manipulation.