Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: Switzerland
• Founded: 2016
• Website: https://www.anybotics.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

ANYbotics builds autonomous quadruped inspection robots for industrial facilities. Its ANYmal robot is designed for rugged, all-weather inspection in plants, energy sites and hazardous areas, using onboard sensors and autonomy to collect operational data without routine human entry.

Market context

ANYbotics matters because it has moved quadruped inspection robotics from pilots toward real industrial operations where repeatable data collection replaces risky manual rounds. Independent robotics company.

• Capability: autonomous navigation in industrial environments inspection data capture and analysis ruggedised robotic mobility fleet deployment for inspection workflows
• Strategic position: inspection automation · industrial environments

Products

• ANYmal

Facts

• Website: https://www.anybotics.com
• HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

• 2025-09-22 - Funding round - $146M - Anybotics raises over EUR 127 million for four-legged workforce - source: eu-startups.com
• 2024-12-12 - $60M - ANYbotics raises additional $60M to expand in the U.S. - source: anybotics.com
• 2023-05-16 - Series B - $50M - ANYbotics closes $50M Series B Funding Round - source: waldencatalyst.com
• 2020-12-03 - Series A - $22M - ANYbotics announces CHF 20 million Series A led by Swisscom Ventures - source: anybotics.com

Investors

• Swisscom Ventures - Lead - Vc - 4 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-12-03 - latest 2025-09-22
• Bessemer Venture Partners - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-16 - latest 2025-09-22
• NGP Capital - Lead - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-16 - latest 2025-09-22
• Aramco Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-16 - latest 2025-09-22
• Qualcomm Ventures - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-12-12 - latest 2025-09-22
• Supernova Invest - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-12-12 - latest 2025-09-22
• TDK Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-12-12 - latest 2025-09-22
• Walden Catalyst - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-16 - latest 2024-12-12
• EquityPitcher Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-12-03 - latest 2023-05-16
• Climate Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
• Walden Catalyst Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-22
• Swisscanto - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-12
• Swisscanto Private Equity - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-16
• Verve Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-16
• Ace & Company - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-12-03

Industrial inspection quadruped company

ANYbotics develops ANYmal autonomous inspection robots for industrial plants, energy facilities and hazardous environments.

• Target environment: Oil and gas plants, chemical facilities, power sites, mines, industrial plants and explosive-atmosphere zones.
• Deployment model: End-to-end inspection robot solution using ANYmal platforms, onboard sensors and customer deployment support.
• Customer context: Energy companies, industrial operators, asset owners, inspection teams and maintenance organizations.
• Workflow context: Routine inspection, thermal and visual data capture, gas detection, remote monitoring, Ex-zone operation and autonomous patrol.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial industrial robotics company with ANYmal inspection robots deployed for complex industrial facilities.
• Market position: Legged inspection robotics company focused on hazardous industrial environments.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site integration, inspection value, sensor reliability, Ex certification, service support and fleet uptime.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes quadruped inspection robots, industrial asset monitoring, Ex-zone robots and field robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-16 - Facility Opening - ANYbotics opens Barcelona engineering hub for autonomous inspection robots - The Barcelona office is ANYbotics’ third hub, joining Zurich and San Francisco, and is based at the DFactory I…
• 2026-03-30 - Market Signal - ANYbotics passes 200 ANYmal robots in productive use - More than 200 ANYmal robots were in productive use worldwide.
• 2026-02-20 - Research Publication - GrandTour dataset paper releases large-scale ANYmal-D legged-robot perception data - The GrandTour paper introduces a large open-access legged-robotics dataset for state estimation, S…
• 2026-02-10 - Partnership - Yokogawa and ANYbotics sign partnership to integrate OpreX Robot Management Core with ANYmal inspection robots - Yokogawa and ANYbotics signed a partnership agreement to integrate Yokogawa's O…
• 2025-09-22 - Funding - Anybotics raises over EUR 127 million for four-legged workforce - ANYbotics announced a total funding position above EUR 127 million to scale deployment of its quadruped inspection robots.
• 2025-06-23 - Deployment - Equinor deploys ANYmal at Northern Lights CCS facility - The robot was autonomously running through the facility within the first week of deployment.
• 2025-06-18 - Product Launch - ANYbotics launches gas leak and gas presence detection capability for ANYmal - ANYbotics launched gas leak and gas presence detection capability for its ANYmal inspection robot.
• 2025-06-17 - Demonstration - ANYbotics Demonstrates ANYmal's Gas Leak Detection Capabilities - • ANYbotics showcased the gas leak detection capabilities of its ANYmal robot, integrating modular gas detectors with a 360°…
• 2025-05-16 - Research Publication - Parkour in the Wild: Learning a General and Extensible Agile Locomotion Policy Using Multi-expert Distillation and RL Fine-tuning - Legged robots are well-suited for navigating terrai…
• 2025-05-15 - Research Publication - Real-Time Out-of-Distribution Failure Prevention via Multi-Modal Reasoning - While foundation models offer promise toward improving robot safety in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios…
• 2025-05-13 - Research Publication - FOCI: Trajectory Optimization on Gaussian Splats - 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity as a faster alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) in 3D reconstr…
• 2024-12-12 - Funding - ANYbotics raises additional $60M to expand in the U.S. - ANYbotics raised $60 million, totaling over $130 million in funding, led by Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest.
• 2024-10-10 - Research Publication - Constrained skill discovery paper deploys unsupervised locomotion on ANYmal - The paper proposes constrained unsupervised skill discovery for quadruped locomotion using a latent repre…
• 2024-08-27 - Partnership - ANYbotics and AWS partner on ANYmal industrial inspection workflows - ANYmal became available as an AWS Partner Solution.
• 2024-06-12 - Partnership - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration - Partnership links ANYmal inspection robots with Energy Robotics software.
• 2024-03-29 - Research Publication - Adaptive energy-regularization paper trains efficient gait transitions on ANYmal-C - The paper proposes an adaptive energy reward for reinforcement-learning locomotion so quadrupeds c…
• 2023-12-21 - Demonstration - ANYmal robot demonstrates autonomous inspection capabilities - • ANYbotics showcased the ANYmal robot's autonomous inspection and locomotion capabilities at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.
• 2023-11-22 - Deployment - Petrobras fields ANYmal X for offshore FPSO inspection - The program targets repetitive and hazardous inspection tasks on FPSO vessels.
• 2023-11-15 - Deployment - Aker BP tests ANYmal X inspections on Valhall platform - The Valhall test covered two decks and 70 inspection points.
• 2023-08-04 - Deployment - ANYbotics deploys ANYmal X for BASF Ex-zone inspections - ANYmal X conducted inspection missions across multi-level Ex-zones at BASF Ludwigshafen.
• 2023-06-26 - Research Publication - ANYmal Parkour paper trains agile navigation for quadrupedal robots - The ANYmal Parkour paper proposes a learned hierarchy for walking, jumping, climbing, and crouching through parko…
• 2023-05-16 - Funding - ANYbotics closes $50M Series B Funding Round - ANYbotics announced a $50M Series B round led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital, with participation from existing investors.
• 2022-08-17 - Research Publication - Perceptive locomotion paper validates real-time NMPC climbing on ANYmal - The paper presents a full perception, planning, and control pipeline for optimizing all robot degrees of free…
• 2022-03-23 - Partnership - PETRONAS and ANYbotics partner to commercialize ANYmal X - PETRONAS and ANYbotics agreed to commercialize ANYmal X.

Team

• Péter Fankhauser - Co-founder and CEO - His background ties ANYbotics industrial inspection robots to ETH legged-robotics research and field robotics commercialization.
• Dr. Péter Fankhauser - Chief Executive Officer
• Fredrik Isler - Chief Financial Officer
• Thierry Obédé - Chief Revenue Officer

Supply chain relationships

• Industrial automation / RMS partner - OpreX Robot Management Core integration with ANYmal software stack (ANYbotics official).
• RealSense - RealSense D435 depth modules - ANYmal robots use six RealSense D435 modules for elevation mapping, obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation in industrial sites.

Relationships

• Lead investor - Led ANYbotics CHF 20M Series A (ANYbotics official).
• Investor - Participated in ANYbotics Series A (ANYbotics official).
• CCS facility deployment - ANYbotics deployed ANYmal at the Equinor-operated Northern Lights CCS facility in Øygarden.
• Offshore FPSO inspection pilot - ANYbotics field-tested ANYmal X with Petrobras on FPSO P-74 as part of a long-term offshore inspection pilot.
• Ex-zone inspection deployment - ANYbotics deployed ANYmal X with BASF at Ludwigshafen for automated inspection in Ex-rated plant areas.

Context tags

• Industrial inspection robotics - Peer Group - ANYbotics provides autonomous robotic inspection solutions for industrial applications.
• Industrial asset inspection - Workflow - ANYmal is used for routine inspection and data capture in industrial sites.
• Industrial facilities - Customer Environment - ANYmal is positioned for industrial inspection environments.
• Autonomous navigation - Capability - ANYmal navigates autonomously through industrial and confined spaces
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete ANYmal quadruped robotic systems
• Quadruped robotics builder - Peer Group - ANYbotics builds ANYmal quadruped robot systems.
• Legged locomotion - Capability - ANYmal is a quadruped platform with legged locomotion
• Robot fleet operations - Capability - ANYmal deployment materials describe onboarding, inspection mission setup and operational scaling.
• Autonomous docking - Capability - ANYmal supports autonomous charging and repeated operations.
• Energy and utilities - Customer Environment - ANYmal is used in asset-heavy industrial environments including energy-style inspection contexts.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - ANYmal commercially deployed with energy, chemical and industrial customers
• Legged inspection robotics - Peer Group - Core peer group: legged inspection robotics for industrial sites
• Industrial inspection - Workflow - Anybotics ANYmal deployed for industrial inspection workflows
• Factories - Customer Environment - Primary deployment environments include plants and industrial facilities

Customers and deployments

• Named Customer Site - ANYmal D at Northern Lights CCS facility - 2025-06-23 - Equinor - industrial inspection and remote monitoring - Equinor deployed ANYmal D at the Northern Lights CCS facility in Oygarden for autonom…
• Customer Bound Units - 6 ANYmal X units for Petrobras offshore inspection pilot - 2023-11-22 - Petrobras - offshore FPSO inspection - Petrobras invested in six ANYmal X units and field-tested the robot on FPSO P-74 as p…
• Named Pilot Site - ANYmal X tested on Aker BP Valhall platform - 2023-11-15 - Aker BP - remote offshore inspection - ANYbotics, Aker BP, and Cognite tested ANYmal X on Aker BP's Valhall platform for remote offshore insp…
• Named Pilot Site - ANYmal X tested at BASF Ludwigshafen - 2023-08-04 - BASF - Ex-rated industrial inspection - BASF tested ANYmal X at its Ludwigshafen site for automated visual, thermal, and acoustic inspections in Ex-…

Articles

• 2026-04-06 - Robots are getting good at the jobs humans hate inspecting - The strongest commercial cases are often specialist systems built for hard environments, repeated tasks, and clear operating value. - Korthos: /r…
• 2026-03-30 - ANYbotics connects ANYmal to industrial field-service workflows - ANYbotics and SAP are integrating ANYmal with SAP Field Service Management, giving industrial customers a way to route inspection work to ro…
• 2024-12-12 - ANYbotics is turning Ex-certified quadrupeds into a hazardous-site inspection layer - A 60 million dollar financing extension, U.S. support office, and Zone 1 certified ANYmal X platform give ANYbotics a se…