ConstructionFour-legged inspection robot

ANYmal

Name: ANYmal
Brand: ANYbotics

ANYmal is a four-legged robot from Switzerland that walks through factories, power plants and other industrial sites on its own to check equipment, doing rounds that people would otherwise do. TechCrunch, 3 Dec 2020

Stage 4 of 5

Paying customers

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Independently reported
Human help: Not disclosed
Last milestone: 22 June 2026

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Working at industrial sites such as oil and gas plants and a Swiss cement plant; ANYbotics said more than 200 had been shipped by September 2025. EU-Startups, 22 Sept 2025
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

22 June 2026
Paying customers · sets the stage
At Vigier Ciment's cement plant in Péry, Switzerland, an ANYmal robot has done more than 33,000 inspections since early 2025.
Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
22 Sept 2025
Paying customers · sets the stage
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.
EU-Startups, 22 Sept 2025Company-reported
12 Dec 2024
Funding
ANYbotics raised another $60 million, bringing its total funding to more than $130 million, to expand, including in the US.
The Robot Report, 12 Dec 2024Company-reported
16 May 2023
Funding
ANYbotics raised $50 million and named oil, chemical and mining companies including Shell, BASF and Vale among its users.
ANYbotics press release (Business Wire), 16 May 2023Company-reported
28 Sept 2022
Pre-orders
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.
The Robot Report, 28 Sept 2022Company-reported
2016
Update
ANYbotics was spun out of the ETH Zurich university in 2016 to turn its walking-robot research into a product.
TechCrunch, 3 Dec 2020

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.

Said28 Sept 2022
First ANYmal X deliveries in mid-2023
ANYbotics said the first deliveries of the explosion-safe ANYmal X would start in mid-2023. The Robot Report, 28 Sept 2022
Missed
In September 2025 the company was still described as getting ready to start ANYmal X customer deliveries.

04Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

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Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
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Paying customersThis robot
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
Placed by: At Vigier Ciment's cement plant in Péry, Switzerland, an ANYmal robot has done more than 33,000 inspections since early 2025 (22 June 2026); 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 (22 Sept 2025).
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Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
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Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
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Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. Could not confirm whether ANYmal X customer deliveries had started by October 2026. No public price found. The cement plant figures come from a feature article that may draw on ANYbotics material.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “ANYmal (ANYbotics): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/anybotics-anymal. Checked 19 October 2026.