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ABB IRB 120
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Overview
ABB's compact 6-axis industrial robot: 3 kg payload (4 kg with vertical wrist), 580 mm reach, 25 kg, +-0.01 mm repeatability (ISO 9283 pose repeatability), IP30, any-angle mounting. Runs on the IRC5 Compact or IRC5 single-cabinet controller; Clean Room ISO class 5 and food-grade lubrication versions were offered. ABB lists the model as discontinued and replaced by the IRB 1200 Next Gen (Gen 2) family.
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Software & 3D models
- URDF: yes
- MuJoCo: yes
- Isaac Sim (USD): not found
- Gazebo: yes
- CAD (STEP): not found
- SDK: yes
- ROS: yes
- ROS 2: not found
- RoboDK: yes
Checked 2026-10-19. Links are not published; we share them with clients.
Variants & pricing
| Variant | Status | Available | Current price |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRB 120-3/0.6 | discontinued | — | Contact |
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Full price history
| Price | Date | Variant | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | 2026-10-17 | IRB 120-3/0.6 | ABB Robotics One (one.robotics.abb.com) | Marked Discontinued on ABB's product page; no ABB list price. Only used or refurbished units and bundled reseller offers were found in search, none read on a fetched page, so no price is recorded. |
Sensors
- Wrist I/O: 10 signals on wrist
- Integrated air supply: 4 air lines on wrist (5 bar)
Locomotion
fixed mount, floor, inverted or wall mount at any angle
Manipulation
Arms: 6 DOF · Hands: ABB tool flange with 10 signals and 4 air lines on the wrist; third-party end-effectors
Use cases
material handling, assembly, 3D printing, electronics, food and beverage, medical and research (ABB datasheet)
Key facts
- ABB Robotics One product page (fetched 2026-10-17): status 'Discontinued', 'Replaced by IRB 1200 Next Gen (Gen 2) Family'; 3 kg max payload, 0.58 m reach, 0.01 mm repeatability; applications assembly, material handling, 3D printing.
- ABB datasheet (library.e.abb.com, rev. 06.2017, fetched 2026-10-17): 3 kg (4 kg with vertical wrist), armload 0.3 kg, 580 mm reach, 25 kg, base 180 x 180 mm, height 700 mm, IP30, any-angle mounting, 10 signals and 4 air lines (5 bar) on wrist, repeatability 0.01 mm.
- ABB IRB 120 datasheet (library.e.abb.com/public/7994e7a9604e4b8c98a92dd90be271e1/, rev. 06.2017, fetched 2026-10-19): ambient temperature for the mechanical unit +5 to +50 C in operation (41 to 122 F), -25 to +55 C in transport and storage, up to +70 C for short periods (max 24 h); operating_temp_max_c uses this +50 C. A later product specification (rev. W, 3HAC035960-001) was cited earlier with +45 C but could not be fetched again, so that figure is not used.
- Axis working range (degrees) A1 +-165, A2 +-110, A3 +70/-110, A4 +-160, A5 +-120, A6 +-400; max speed 250 / 250 / 250 / 320 / 320 / 420 deg/s (datasheet). 0.58 s for a 1 kg 25 x 300 x 25 mm pick cycle.
- The faster IRB 120T variant (axis 4-6 up to 420 / 490 / 600 deg/s) appears in the 2017 datasheet; ABB's product page marks the whole IRB 120 line discontinued, so it is not entered as a variant.
- Successor: ABB names the IRB 1200 Next Gen (Gen 2) family, not a single variant. The schema's successor_id links one robot generation to one robot id, so no successor_id is set; abb-irb-1200-7-0-7 is only one member of that family, and the family is higher-payload (5-9 kg), not a like-for-like replacement for the 3 kg class.
- IRB 1100 (in the catalog) is a separate small ABB arm that ABB's own presentation benchmarks against the IRB 120; it is not named as the IRB 120's successor.
- Launch year is not stated on the fetched ABB pages (the datasheet is dated 2017, product specification copyright starts 2010), so year_available is empty.
- Product photo is the robot image from ABB's IRB 120 datasheet (library.e.abb.com, 644 x 902 source, the full-resolution image embedded in the PDF; ABB's web gallery only offers 515 px), transparency composited onto white and centred. The robot fills a 534 px height, so no upscaling is used.
- sdk and ros_support are false only because the fetched pages do not state them; false means 'not stated'.
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
Last updated: 2026-10-19 · Full dataset (CSV/JSON, CC BY 4.0)