Side by side

ABB IRB 2600-12/1.85 vs FANUC M-710iC/12L

Two industrial arms a buyer shopping for material movement would honestly weigh against each other, with the manufacturer-published figures in one table and a plain reading of what the differences mean on a floor. We sell across brands, so we have no reason to tilt it.

	ABB IRB 2600-12/1.85	FANUC M-710iC/12L
Class	Industrial arm	Industrial arm
Payload	12 kg (26 lb)	12 kg (26 lb)
Reach	1850 mm	3123 mm
Sold as collaborative	no	no
Applications listed	welding, machine tending, material movement, pick and place	welding, material movement, pick and place
Specs checked	2026-08-22	2026-08-22

Every figure is a manufacturer-published claim, checked on the date shown against the maker's own material, and not one of them survives contact with your part, your rate and your floor without an applications review. Prices are deliberately absent: quotes are prepared by our team and confirmed with the manufacturer.

What the numbers mean on the floor

Payload is effectively a tie at 12 kg and 12 kg. The gripper and the part decide it, not the arm: rated payload is measured at the wrist with no tool on it.
The FANUC M-710iC/12L reaches 1273 mm farther than the ABB IRB 2600-12/1.85. That matters for pallet height, bin depth and machine door clearance more than it matters at a bench.
Neither is sold as collaborative. Both need guarding and an integrator's risk assessment before a person shares the floor with them.
Both are listed for material movement, pick and place, welding. The ABB IRB 2600-12/1.85 is also listed for machine tending.

What a spec sheet cannot tell you

The gripper, the fixture and the integrator decide more of the outcome than the arm. Cycle time on your part is a test, not a datasheet figure. Service footprint, spare parts and who answers the phone at 2 AM differ by brand and by state. And the price difference between two arms in the same class is usually smaller than the difference between two integrators' quotes for the same cell. A model number is not a specification, and the gripper is the project.

From our matrix

ABB IRB 2600-12/1.85. Family also has ID variants at 15/1.85 and 8/2.00.

FANUC M-710iC/12L. Longest reach M-710iC variant at low payload.

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