ANYbotics Timeline

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 Industry 4.0 campus. The site expands hiring across computer vision, machine learning, software engineering, mechatronics and DevOps. ANYbotics… - source: anybotics.com
• 2026-03-30 - Market Signal - ANYbotics passes 200 ANYmal robots in productive use - More than 200 ANYmal robots were in productive use worldwide. SAP Field Service Management integration enabled work-order dispatch to ANYmal and inspection results back into SAP. The integration linked industrial inspection robots with enterprise maintenance… - source: news.sap.com
• 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, SLAM, perception, and multi-modal learning. The dataset was collected with an ANYbotics ANYmal-D quadruped carrying the Boxi multi-modal sensor payload across… - source: arxiv.org
• 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 OpreX Robot Management Core software with the software stack of ANYbotics' ANYmal robots. The integration covers both explosion-proof and non-explosion-proof inspection robots and… - source: anybotics.com
• 2025-09-22 - Funding - ANYbotics reports cumulative funding above EUR 127 million as Climate Investment joins - Climate Investment joined ANYbotics as a strategic investor in September 2025; the investment amount was not disclosed. Contemporaneous reporting described the company's cumulative funding position as above EUR 127 million rather than a new EUR 127 million… - source: eu-startups.com
• 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. Use cases include CO2 monitoring, perimeter surveys and frequent inspections at the normally unmanned site. The deployment places Equinor's technology into… - source: anybotics.com
• 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. The release adds autonomous gas-sensing workflows to the company's industrial inspection stack. The launch extends ANYmal's role from visual and thermal… - source: anybotics.com
• 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° acoustic imaging payload to pinpoint leak sources and measure ambient gas concentrations. • The demonstration highlighted the… - source: anybotics.com
• 2025-06-17 - Product Launch - ANYbotics launches modular gas-leak detection for ANYmal with N.E.T. sensor option - The payload combines a 360-degree acoustic imager with up to two swappable gas concentration detectors. N.E.T. is listed alongside Honeywell as a supported technology provider for targeted gas concentration sensing. Early-adopter projects span energy… - source: anybotics.com
• 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 terrains inaccessible to wheeled robots, making them ideal for applications in search and rescue or space exploration. ANYmal is the evaluation platform used to test the method and reported findings. - source: arxiv.org
• 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, how to effectively harness their generalist knowledge for real-time, dynamically feasible response remains a crucial problem. ANYmal is the evaluation… - source: arxiv.org
• 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 reconstruction and view synthesis methods. ANYmal is the robot platform used in the reported research setup. - source: arxiv.org
• 2024-12-12 - Funding - ANYbotics raises additional $60M to expand in the U.S. - Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest led the additional $60 million financing. TDK Ventures joined as a new investor alongside existing backers including Walden Catalyst, NGP Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Swisscanto Private Equity and Swisscom… - source: anybotics.com
• 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 representation over states. The authors report deployment of learned policies on a real ANYmal quadruped robot for zero-shot Cartesian-state reaching. - source: arxiv.org
• 2024-08-27 - Partnership - ANYbotics and AWS partner on ANYmal industrial inspection workflows - ANYbotics and AWS cooperated to make ANYmal available as an AWS Partner Solution for industrial inspection workflows, connecting robot inspection data into cloud-based industrial systems. ANYmal became available as an AWS Partner Solution. The solution… - source: anybotics.com
• 2024-06-12 - Partnership - ANYbotics and Energy Robotics partner on inspection-data integration - Partnership links ANYmal inspection robots with Energy Robotics software. The collaboration was announced around ACHEMA 2024. Integration targets asset-monitoring and inspection-data workflows for industrial sites. - source: anybotics.com
• 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 can choose efficient gaits across different speeds. The authors demonstrate autonomous gait transitions on ANYmal-C and Unitree Go1, including stable four-beat… - source: arxiv.org
• 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. • The demonstration included the robot reading visual, thermal, and acoustic signals while avoiding obstacles. • The event highlighted… - source: youtube.com
• 2023-11-22 - Deployment - Petrobras fields ANYmal X for offshore FPSO inspection - The program targets repetitive and hazardous inspection tasks on FPSO vessels. ANYbotics said ANYmal X was conducting autonomous inspection missions on a Petrobras FPSO. The deployment places Petrobras fields ANYmal X for offshore FPSO inspection's… - source: anybotics.com
• 2023-11-15 - Deployment - Aker BP tests ANYmal X inspections on Valhall platform - The Valhall test covered two decks and 70 inspection points. ANYmal X data was integrated with Cognite Data Fusion for mission planning and inspection analysis. The deployment supported Aker BP’s plan for remote inspection on unmanned offshore platforms. - source: anybotics.com
• 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. The deployment covered visual readings, thermal checks, pump monitoring and anomaly data collection. The deployment places ANYbotics's technology into inspection… - source: anybotics.com
• 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 parkour-like obstacles. The authors report successful real-world transfer on hardware at speeds up to two meters per second. The work gives ANYmal a… - source: arxiv.org
• 2023-05-16 - Funding - ANYbotics raises $50 million Series B - Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital led the $50 million Series B, with Bessemer Venture Partners also participating. Aramco Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Swisscanto Private Equity, EquityPitcher Ventures and Verve Ventures joined the financing. The capital was… - source: anybotics.com
• 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 freedom in real time. Experiments on ANYmal cover gaps, slopes, and stepping stones, including dynamic climbing behaviors. It expands ANYmal research… - source: arxiv.org
• 2022-03-23 - Partnership - PETRONAS and ANYbotics partner to commercialize ANYmal X - PETRONAS and ANYbotics agreed to commercialize ANYmal X. The collaboration targets autonomous inspection in oil, gas and energy environments. ANYmal X is designed for Ex-rated industrial environments. - source: petronas.com
• 2020-12-03 - Funding - ANYbotics announces CHF 20 million Series A led by Swisscom Ventures - ANYbotics announced the closing of a CHF 20 million Series A financing round to accelerate commercialization of its autonomous inspection robots. The round was led by Swisscom Ventures with participation from co-investors including Ace & Company and… - source: anybotics.com
• 2020-10-21 - Research Publication - ANYmal challenging-terrain paper demonstrates blind locomotion in natural environments - The Science Robotics paper trains a learning-based controller for quadrupedal locomotion over difficult natural terrain. The controller is deployed on two generations of ANYmal robots in outdoor settings beyond the reach of prior published legged-locomotion… - source: arxiv.org
• 2019-01-24 - Research Publication - Science Robotics paper learns agile motor skills on ANYmal - The paper trains a neural-network locomotion controller in simulation and deploys it on the ANYmal quadruped. It reports dynamic motor skills such as fast locomotion, fall recovery, and robustness to pushes, slopes, and uneven terrain. This is a landmark… - source: arxiv.org