Where is Airbus based?

Airbus is based in Leiden, Netherlands / Toulouse, France.

What does Airbus make?

Airbus has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: CIMON (Airbus builds physical robots).

Where does Airbus operate robots?

Airbus operates 1 verified deployment, including at International Space Station.

Company

Airbus

European aerospace manufacturer; its Defence and Space division built the CIMON ISS crew-assistant free-flyer (funded by DLR, with IBM Watson natural-language AI).

Based in Leiden, Netherlands / Toulouse, France · Founded 1970 · 1 model on record · 1 operated deployment

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HQ: Leiden, Netherlands / Toulouse, France
Founded: 1970
Status: active
Type: hardware
ID: a059be81-62c7-4221-9763-3f632404eaba

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Models (1)

CIMONspace

Operated deployments (1)

CIMONInternational Space Station

Operator customers (1)

Airbus1 deployment

Sources (2)

Common questions

What is Airbus?: European aerospace manufacturer; its Defence and Space division built the CIMON ISS crew-assistant free-flyer (funded by DLR, with IBM Watson natural-language AI).
Where is Airbus based?: Airbus is based in Leiden, Netherlands / Toulouse, France.
When was Airbus founded?: Airbus was founded in 1970.
What does Airbus make?: Airbus has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: CIMON (Airbus builds physical robots).
Where does Airbus operate robots?: Airbus operates 1 verified deployment, including at International Space Station.

Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-06

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-06-06

Sources by quality tier

1: knowledge-base; Knowledge base
1: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

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