ZURICH—Volvo Cars is acquiring more than 1,300 robots from ABB to assemble its next generation of electric vehicles. The machines will be installed at the automaker’s factories in Torslanda, Sweden, and Daqing, China.

The robots will be used for variety of applications, such as adhesive dispensing, flow drilling, riveting, spot welding and ultrasonic welding.

“The automotive industry’s historic transformation, driven by increasing consumer demand for electric vehicles and a desire to operate more sustainably, is creating new opportunities as well as challenges for global manufacturers,” says Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics. “This latest commitment from Volvo Cars demonstrates our shared focus of delivering more sustainable manufacturing.

“Through our new, energy-efficient large robot family and OmniCore controllers, we will help to deliver energy savings of up to 20 percent at sites around the world,” claims Segura.

Segura says production will remain uninterrupted through the use of ABB’s RobotStudi planning and programing software platform to visualize and optimize the deployment before the robots are installed.