The ABB Corporate Research Center in the United States is colocated in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Windsor, Connecticut. The center delivers leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions to ABB power and automation businesses.

Our focus areas include:

• Transmission and distribution system engineering
• Grid modernization technologies
• Solid-state protection device design and applications
• Electrical machines
• Variable-speed drives and control
• Converter design and control 
• Software engineering techniques and tools
• Software, system and analytics architectures
• Robot intelligence and ease of use
• Intelligent sensors and applications

We collaborate with leading universities including MIT, Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Tennessee, North Carolina State University, Tokyo Marine University, Texas A&M University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, the University of Maryland, the University of Delaware and University College London.