ANYbotics is turning Ex-certified quadrupeds into a hazardous-site inspection layer

A 60 million dollar financing extension, U.S. support office, and Zone 1 certified ANYmal X platform give ANYbotics a service path into heavy industrial inspection sites.

12 Dec 24

ANYbotics raised an additional $60 million on December 12, 2024, bringing total funding above $130 million and tying the round to U.S. expansion. The company had opened a Silicon Valley office a month earlier to support North American industrial inspection customers.

ANYbotics was founded in 2016 as an ETH Zurich spin-off and recorded its first sales in 2017. Co-founder Péter Fankhauser is CEO, and the company operates in Zurich and San Francisco. Its ANYmal quadruped performs inspections in industrial facilities. Source

ANYmal X is certified for ATEX and IECEx Zone 1 IIB operation, carries IP67 ingress protection, and operates between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius. ANYbotics redesigned the robot with a pressurized main body filled with inert nitrogen gas and revised actuators to reduce ignition risk in explosive atmospheres.

The inspection payload combines a 20x optical zoom camera, thermal camera, and microphone. The thermal camera reads from minus 10 to 400 degrees Celsius, while the pan-tilt unit covers wide vertical and horizontal movement. ANYbotics lists open grated stairs, cramped spaces, slippery terrain, fixed platforms, floating vessels, and multi-floor facilities among the conditions ANYmal X is built to handle.

The December 2024 financing announcement named customer orders from BP, Equinor, and Petrobras, and ANYbotics also lists partnerships with AWS, NVIDIA, and SAP.

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