ABB
Robot types: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 4.3/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 6 of 7 among Machinery OEM companies with incidents (257 tracked).
Analyst brief
ABB's record contains one 2017 entry: a researcher-demonstrated remote hack of an ABB IRB140 industrial robot shown to cause unsafe physical motion, classified as a cyber incident at severity 2. The event originates from third-party security research rather than a field failure or regulatory action, and the record shows a single disclosed vulnerability rather than an operational pattern.
Risk index
Products and robot types
Industries: Machinery OEM · Sectors: Manufacturing
Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.
| Robot type | Share of company risk | Rank within type |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial arm | 100% | 6 of 7 |
| Product | Robot type | Status | Incidents | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRB Series | Industrial arm | shipping | 0 | 0.0 |
| YuMi | Cobot | shipping | 0 | 0.0 |
Incident timeline
Comparisons over time
Per-type breakdown
| Incident type | Unique incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| cyber | 1 | 100% |
Unique incident list
1 unique incident on file for this company.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | ~May 2017 | cyber | — | Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement · 1 robot (research demonstration) | Help Net Security |
S2 ~May 2017 · cyber · Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | ~May 2017 | Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement | Help Net Security |
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