Products: Cobot, Industrial arm. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 9.7/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 98th percentile of 122 machinery oem companies.
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 index of 9.8 combined with a percentile of 99.2 places ABB at the top of the machinery-OEM category, indicating this single disclosed vulnerability outweighs the comparative records of nearly all category peers. 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. The high percentile reflects category-relative scarcity of comparable disclosures, not multiple incidents at ABB itself.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 09/2026 | cyber | — | CISA ICS advisories: 2 affecting robot/controller products · 2 advisories | CISA ICS-CERT |
| S2 | 05/2017 | cyber | — | Researchers demonstrate remote hack of ABB IRB140 industrial robot causing unsafe physical movement · 1 robot (research demonstration) | Help Net Security |