ANYmal product profile
ANYmal is ANYbotics autonomous quadruped inspection robot for industrial facilities. It navigates stairs, rough terrain and complex plants while carrying sensors for routine inspection, anomaly detection and data collection in hazardous or remote areas.
Facts
- Company: ANYbotics
- Product type: Quadruped
- Status: commercial
- Website: https://www.anybotics.com/robotics/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Overview
- Market context
- Audience
- Workflow
- Capability
- Deployment environment
- Positioning tags
- Specifications
- Tags
- Record / Articles
- Timeline / Research
- Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Supply / Components
- Comparable Systems
- Sources
Summary
ANYmal is ANYbotics autonomous quadruped inspection robot for industrial facilities. It navigates stairs, rough terrain and complex plants while carrying sensors for routine inspection, anomaly detection and data collection in hazardous or remote areas.
Overview
ANYmal is ANYbotics autonomous quadruped inspection robot for industrial facilities. It navigates stairs, rough terrain and complex plants while carrying sensors for routine inspection, anomaly detection and data collection in hazardous or remote areas.
Market context
ANYmal is ANYbotics industrial quadruped for autonomous inspection rounds in complex facilities.
- Target environment: Oil and gas, chemicals, power, utilities, mining, metals and transport facilities.
- Workflow context: Autonomous rounds, visual inspection, thermal/acoustic sensing, anomaly detection and remote facility monitoring.
- Customer context: Industrial operators reducing manual inspection exposure and improving routine asset data capture.
- Deployment model: Enterprise robot deployment with inspection software, docking and operations integration.
- Commercial maturity: Commercially deployed industrial inspection robot.
- Adoption constraints: Requires site mapping, safety approval, inspection workflow integration and fit with facility connectivity.
- Market position: Commercial quadruped inspection platform for heavy industry and hazardous operating environments.
- Adjacent products: Spot, B2
Audience
Industrial operators
Workflow
Autonomous rounds, visual inspection, thermal/acoustic sensing, anomaly detection and remote facility monitoring.
Capability
Autonomous navigation
Deployment environment
Oil and gas, chemicals, power, utilities, mining, metals and transport facilities.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Industrial operators
- Workflow: Autonomous rounds, visual inspection, thermal/acoustic sensing, anomaly detection and remote facility monitoring.
- Capability: Autonomous navigation
- Deployment environment: Oil and gas, chemicals, power, utilities, mining, metals and transport facilities.
Specifications
- Speed Mps: 0.75 m/s
- Range: 2 km per charge listed by ANYbotics km
- Runtime: 90-120 minutes walking range reference
- Sensors Summary: 360-degree lidar, six depth cameras and two optical remote-operation cameras
- Connectivity: WiFi and 4G/LTE
- Compute: Two Intel i7 Core processors
Tags
- Peer Group: Industrial inspection quadruped
- Workflow: Industrial inspection
- Capability: Autonomous navigation
- Deployment Environment: Industrial facility
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Benchmark reference product, Deployed platform
Record / Articles
- 2026-03-30 - Article - ANYbotics connects ANYmal to industrial field-service workflows
Timeline / Research
- 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…
- 2025-06-23 - 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
Operations Claims / 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-…
Supply / Components
- Leica BLK ARC on ANYmal - Autonomous Laser Scanning Payload - Perception - Leica Geosystems AG - Leica Geosystems AG supplies perception to ANYbotics for Leica BLK ARC on ANYmal - source: anybotics.com
- velodyne_puck_lidar_sensors_for_anymal - Velodyne Puck LIDAR Sensors For Anymal - Perception - Velodyne Lidar - ANYmal uses Velodyne Puck LiDAR sensors for mapping, obstacle detection, localization and navigation in ind…
- maxon customized drive system for ANYmal - Customized Drive System For Anymal - Actuation - maxon - maxon states that it is joining forces with ANYbotics as supplier of drive systems for ANYmal. maxon also describes dev…
Comparable Systems
- Spot - Boston Dynamics - Quadruped
- X30 - Deep Robotics - Quadruped
- B2 - Unitree - Quadruped
- A2 - Unitree - Quadruped
- Lynx M20S - Deep Robotics - Quadruped
- Lite3 - Deep Robotics - Quadruped
- B1 - Unitree - Quadruped
- AS2 - Unitree - Quadruped
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