ABB IRB 1100

Overview

ABB's small 6-axis industrial robot for electronics assembly, pick-and-place and material handling: 4 kg payload, 0.475 m or 0.58 m reach, 160 x 160 mm base and about 21 kg. ABB sells it with the OmniCore E10, C30 and C90XT controllers; IP40 is standard, IP67 and a Cleanroom ISO 4 version are options. ABB claims up to 35% faster cycle times and a 10% smaller footprint than the older IRB 120.

Variants & pricing

Full price history

Sensors

• Wrist I/O: 8 signals (CP/CS) plus M12 8-pin Ethernet, 1 Gbit/s
• Integrated air supply: 4 air lines in the outer arm (5 bar)

Locomotion

fixed mount, ceiling mount, wall mount, any angle

Manipulation

Arms: 6 DOF · Hands: ABB tool flange with wrist signal/power (8 signals) and air lines; third-party end-effectors

Use cases

electronics assembly, pick and place, material handling, testing and inspection, cleanroom operations

Key facts

• ABB's product page (fetched 2026-10-17) lists two variants, IRB 1100-4/0.475 and IRB 1100-4/0.58, both 4 kg payload with 0.5 kg arm load.
• Weight: 21 kg (0.58 m) from ABB's IRB 1100 product presentation Rev.B (library.e.abb.com, fetched 2026-10-17), a 2018 pre-launch deck; the ABB product page gives no weight. The deck's 20.5 kg for the 0.48 m model is not used (unconfirmed pre-launch figure); Unchained Robotics lists 21 kg for the 475 mm model, so both variants use 21 kg. specs_verified points to the deck, the only ABB document with a weight.
• Protection: IP40 standard, IP67 optional on the whole robot (IEC 60529), Cleanroom ISO 4 version available (ABB product page). Mounting: any angle; base 160 x 160 mm (ABB presentation).
• Repeatability 0.01 mm, joint speeds (J1 460, J2 380, J3 280, J4 560, J5 420, J6 750 deg/s), 5-45 C operating temperature (not stored in specs because dealer-only) and 70 dB come only from the Unchained Robotics listings (fetched 2026-10-17). ABB's page says only 'best-in-class repeatability' and its 2018 deck lists repeatability as 'TBC', so these are dealer figures, not confirmed by an ABB document.
• ABB's 2018 deck gives a 0.42 s cycle for a 1 kg 25 x 300 x 25 mm pick cycle (0.58 m version).
• ABB claims over 35% faster cycles, over 10% smaller footprint, over 20% less weight and over 50% more I/O compared with the IRB 120 (ABB 2018 presentation). The IRB 120 is not in this catalog, so no predecessor link is set.
• Both reach variants are listed by Unchained at EUR 26,300 excl. VAT (robot arm only, controller extra).
• Launch year: ABB's page gives no date; the earliest ABB document found is a September 2018 presentation, so year_available is left empty.
• SDK and ROS support are not documented on the fetched ABB pages (recorded false only because the schema needs a boolean).
• Image: ABB product-page gallery render (media-d.global.abb, 'IRB 1100-2'), cropped and centred on white.

About ABB Robotics

One of the world's four largest industrial robot manufacturers. Produces both traditional industrial arms and the GoFa/SWIFTI cobot lines.

https://new.abb.com/products/robotics · Founded: 1988 · HQ: Zurich, Switzerland