ABB Robotics has made a strategic investment in California-based LandingAI to integrate advanced visual AI capabilities into its robotic solutions. This collaboration will incorporate LandingAI's LandingLens™ platform into ABB's software suite, featuring pre-trained vision models, intelligent data workflows, and no-code tools that can reduce training time by up to 80%.
The partnership accelerates deployment in fast-growing sectors such as logistics, healthcare, and food & beverage, marking a significant step toward ABB's vision of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR).
Dr. Sami Atiya, President of ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation Business Area, stated: "This collaboration builds on our decade-long commitment to AI innovation. By enhancing robot versatility and autonomy, we're expanding applications beyond traditional manufacturing. The AI demand in robotics stems from three key drivers: greater flexibility, shorter commissioning cycles, and the shortage of robotics programming expertise. Our partnership will slash deployment time from weeks to hours."
Through its ABB Robotics Ventures arm, ABB's strategic investment will advance vision AI technology, making it faster, more intuitive, and accessible to broader user groups. The companies have already initiated pilot projects integrating LandingAI technology into existing vision applications including item picking, sorting, depalletizing, and quality inspection.
Dan Maloney, CEO of LandingAI, added: "While AI evolves rapidly, requiring continuous learning, combining our visual AI with ABB's robots and software lowers automation barriers. This enables businesses to more easily deploy and scale efficient intelligent robotic systems."
ABB Robotics becomes the first in the industry to offer fully integrated AI training tools within its software suite, which will operate alongside ABB's RobotStudio® simulation programming tool with digital twin capabilities to further streamline commissioning processes.
