The highest performance 10 kg robot

Performance is often a trade off, optimizing for speed or accuracy. With ABB’s IRB 1600, you don’t have to choose. The robot’s cycle times are shorter, sometimes half that of other robots, allowing you to increase throughput. Meanwhile, you will enjoy the work piece quality that only an ABB robot can offer. Extra everything.

Key benefits

Up to 50% shorter cycle times

The IRB 1600 has up to 50% shorter cycle times than competing robots in material handling, machine tending and process applications.

Outstanding reliability

The IRB 1600 offers outstanding reliability, even in the toughest environments and the most demanding 24/7 duty cycles. The entire manipulator is IP 54 classed and sensitive parts are IP 67 classed as standard. The optional protection Foundry Plus offers IP 67, special paint, rust protection and is tailor made for tough foundry environments.

Easy to integrate

Mounting is fully flexible: on a shelf, on the wall, tilted or inverted. By choosing the compact shortarm version with the 1.2 m reach, you can even fit the IRB 1600 inside a machine, while ensuring sufficient payload as the maximum total load is as high as 36 kg.

Technical data

Reach up to 1.45

m

Payload up to 10

kg

Armload up to 30

kg

Available variants

IRB 1600-6/1.2

Reach (m): 1.2

Payload (kg): 6

IRB 1600-6/1.45

Reach (m): 1.45

Payload (kg): 6

IRB 1600-10/1.2

Reach (m): 1.2

Payload (kg): 10

IRB 1600-10/1.45

Reach (m): 1.45

Payload (kg): 10

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