ANYmal Capabilities

Capability

Autonomous navigation

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Autonomous navigation
  • Workflows: Industrial inspection
  • Operating environments: Industrial facility
  • Target markets: Industrial operators reducing manual inspection exposure and improving routine asset data capture.
  • Deployment model: Enterprise robot deployment with inspection software, docking and operations integration.
  • Multi-terrain locomotion - Research demonstration - 2026-06-23 - Policies are evaluated in simulation on flat and rough terrains, and deployed on ANYmal hardware. - source: arxiv.org
  • Navigation and obstacle avoidance - Research demonstration - 2024-09-11 - Perceptive Pedipulation with Local Obstacle Avoidance - source: arxiv.org
  • Dynamic locomotion - Research demonstration - 2023-06-26 - The ANYmal Parkour paper proposes a learned hierarchy for walking, jumping, climbing, and crouching through parkour-like obstacles. - source: arxiv.org
  • Fall recovery - Research demonstration - 2019-01-24 - It reports dynamic motor skills such as fast locomotion, fall recovery, and robustness to pushes, slopes, and uneven terrain. - source: arxiv.org
  • Whole-body loco-manipulation - Research demonstration - 2025-09-16 - Collaborative Loco-Manipulation for Pick-and-Place Tasks with Dynamic Reward Curriculum - source: arxiv.org
  • Pick and place - Research demonstration - 2025-09-16 - The authors present a hierarchical RL pipeline for training one-armed legged robots to perform pick-and-place (P&P) tasks end-to-end -- from approaching the payload to releasing it at a target area -- in both… - source: arxiv.org
  • Robotic inspection - Commercial deployment - ANYbotics documents ANYmal running recurring autonomous inspection missions at Vigier Ciment, collecting plant measurements for maintenance teams over an extended customer deployment. - source: anybotics.com
  • Industrial maintenance support - Commercial deployment - ANYbotics documents ANYmal running recurring autonomous inspection missions at Vigier Ciment, collecting plant measurements for maintenance teams over an extended customer deployment. - source: anybotics.com
  • Inspection - Customer-site use - 2023-11-22 - Petrobras fields ANYmal X for offshore FPSO inspection - source: anybotics.com
  • Long-range autonomous transit - Research demonstration - 2024-03-29 - The authors demonstrate autonomous gait transitions on ANYmal-C and Unitree Go1, including stable four-beat walking at lower speed and trotting at higher speed. - source: arxiv.org

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