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robotics/news//South China Morning Post
Pang Zhibo was second only to the company’s chief technology officer.
Pang Zhibo, ABB's senior principal scientist, has joined Peking University as a fully tenured professor.
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Pang was responsible for overseeing over 800 developers and 80 technical products globally at ABB.
At ABB, Pang co-led global distribution R&D strategy, reporting directly to the chief technology officer.
His expertise directly influenced ABB's advancements in industrial large models, cyber-physical security, and 6G communications.
Pang simultaneously holds adjunct professorships at KTH in Sweden and the University of Sydney.
Pang Zhibo, a leading expert on industrial chips and robots with high-end manufacturing giant ABB in Sweden, has returned to China and joined Peking University as a fully tenured professor.
As ABB’s senior principal scientist, Pang was second only to the company’s chief technology officer – who personally appointed him – and oversaw more than 800 developers and 80 technical products globally across all business areas.
The Swiss-Swedish multinational, best known for robotics, motors, energy and automation, is one of the largest industrial engineering companies in the world, with Pang sharing responsibility for ABB’s global distribution R&D strategy.
Pang’s work spanned core domains such as robotic embodiment intelligence, industrial large models, next-generation controllers, industrial cyber-physical security, networked control, cloud/fog computing and 5G/6G/broadband satellite communications.
These technologies are applied in ABB’s key sectors, including smart manufacturing, robotics, industrial drives, smart buildings and automation.
Pang holds adjunct professorial positions at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Sydney in Australia, where his research has focused on embodied intelligence, cloud-edge automation and secure communication for 6G.