ABB IRB 14000 YuMi (dual-arm)

How IRB 14000 YuMi (dual-arm) compares within +/- 5 kg payload.

Dual-arm specialty (0.5 kg payload per arm, 559 mm reach each). The only dual-arm cobot in the cohort. Electronics-assembly specialty product.

The IRB 14000 YuMi (dual-arm) itself is not plotted below. We have no price for it we can stand behind, and we would rather show a gap than draw a bar off a number we invented. The arms around it in the payload band are shown for context.

Why this cobot costs what it costs.

YuMi is a different category of robot than every other entry in this list. Dual 7-axis arms designed for two-handed small-parts assembly — the kind of work an electronics-assembly operator does at a bench with both hands. 0.5 kg payload per arm is far below the cohort's working range; the comparison isn't to UR5e or GoFa-5, it's to a human operator at a bench. ABB quotes rather than publishes, so the honest way to frame the decision is against the cost of the bench operator it would replace — on our BLS-anchored figure, around $90,900 a year for a full-time role on one shift — where the payback math becomes a question of whether the cell runs at human-equivalent precision and speed. Real-world deployment shows that YuMi cells succeed when the parts are extremely repeatable (consumer electronics, medical device sub-assembly) and fail when part variation requires human judgement. The structural cost is the integrated controller — IRC5 compact runs the dual-arm coordination natively, but the application-specific software (lead-through teach, dual-arm synchronisation) is what justifies the premium. ABB's marketing positions this as 'two-handed work', and that's literally what it does — anything else and the price doesn't pencil.

Vendor-specific Bill of Materials.

These line items are what ABB cells specifically need, beyond the bare arm. On our model the arm is 25-50 percent of the installed cell, a 2x to 4x multiplier, and these items are most of the difference. Costs below are our own estimates unless they name a published source.

Target buyer profile.

Electronics-assembly cells with extremely repeatable two-handed work. Medical device sub-assembly. Not a general-purpose cobot.

Not published. This row used to show $40,000-$60,000 while this very note said no firm 2026 price could be located and the widely-cited range predated 2024 - a price in a 2026 table that we had already told you we could not stand behind. Removed rather than restated. ABB requires a quote.