Spinoff Cycle

ABB announces robotics division following a strong opening quarter

ABB announced April 17 that it will launch a process to propose to its Annual General Meeting 2026 to decide on a 100 percent spin-off of its Robotics division. The intention is for the business to start trading as a separately listed company during the second quarter of 2026.

The ABB Robotics division has approximately 7,000 employees. With 2024 revenues of $2.3 billion it represented about 7 percent of ABB Group revenues and had an Operational EBITA margin of 12.1 percent.

If shareholders decide in favor of the proposal, the spin-off is planned to be done through a share distribution, whereby ABB Ltd.’s shareholders will receive shares in the company to be listed (working name “ABB Robotics”) as a dividend in-kind in proportion to their existing shareholding.

As from the first quarter of 2026, the Machine Automation division, which together with ABB Robotics currently forms the Robotics & Discrete Automation business area, will become a part of the Process Automation business area, where "the customer value creation ability in divisions will benefit from technology synergies for software and control technologies, for example towards hybrid industries," ABB said. The Machine Automation business holds a position in the segment for solutions based on PLCs, IPCs, servo motion, industrial transport systems and vision and software. The strategy and business priorities remain the responsibility of the divisional management team, under the ABB Way operating model.