ABB GoFa CRB 15000-5

How GoFa CRB 15000-5 compares within +/- 5 kg payload.

ABB's volume cobot (5 kg / 950 mm). Closest comp is UR5e. Pricing band similar; the OmniCore controller is the structural moat.

Why this cobot costs what it costs.

The GoFa-5's pricing band ($35-45K) sits slightly above UR5e ($30-48K) at the same payload, and the headline question is what the premium buys you. The answer is OmniCore — ABB's cross-portfolio controller that runs every ABB robot from cobots through 600 kg industrial arms. For shops that already run ABB industrial robotics (and there are a lot of them — ABB is the world's largest industrial-robot company by revenue), GoFa-5 plugs into existing RobotWare infrastructure, operator training, and safety-cert flow without re-learning a new controller. Wizard Easy Programming gives a block-based no-code interface for cell setup that is faster than Polyscope for one-off applications. Where the GoFa-5 loses against UR5e is the URCap ecosystem — ABB Robotics+ (the equivalent partner program) is smaller and less mature, so integration spend tends to run higher ($20-32K vs UR's $15-25K). For greenfield cobot buyers with no existing ABB fleet, the case is harder; for existing ABB industrial shops, GoFa-5 is the natural addition.

Vendor-specific Bill of Materials.

These line items are what ABB cells specifically need, beyond the bare arm. Multiply the arm price by 2.5-4x to land at typical installed cost — these items account for most of that multiplier.

Target buyer profile.

Existing ABB industrial-robot shops adding cobot capacity. OmniCore + RobotWare leverage make this the natural cobot for those sites.

ABB Robotics One e-commerce portal does not show price without account. Standard Bots quotes around 39K USD.