Construction
At Vigier Ciment's cement plant in Péry, Switzerland, an ANYmal robot has done more than 33,000 inspections since early 2025.
A dated step forward on the record · Sets ANYmal's stage
What the source says
“Since entering service in early 2025, the robot has completed more than 33,000 inspections”
What it means
ANYmal, from ANYbotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on ANYmal
- ANYbotics said it had shipped more than 200 ANYmal robots and that its total funding had passed €127 million. It said it was getting ready to start ANYmal X deliveries.
- ANYbotics raised another $60 million, bringing its total funding to more than $130 million, to expand, including in the US.
- ANYbotics raised $50 million and named oil, chemical and mining companies including Shell, BASF and Vale among its users.
- ANYbotics opened commercial orders for ANYmal X, a version built to work safely where gas could explode. It said more than 500 were already reserved.
- ANYbotics was spun out of the ETH Zurich university in 2016 to turn its walking-robot research into a product.