The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies ANYbotics: 1 model, 10 deployments across 7 regions, $132.0M raised. 7 sources back the record.
CategoryQuadrupeds
Overview
ANYbotics is a Swiss legged-robotics company spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, building ANYmal, an autonomous quadruped robot for industrial inspection in harsh environments. The company has raised over $130M from investors including Qualcomm Ventures, Supernova Invest, Walden Catalyst, NGP Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and TDK Ventures.
Approximately 200 ANYmal robots are deployed at industrial facilities for customers including BP, Equinor, Petrobras, Novelis, and Outokumpu across the energy, power, metals, mining, and chemical industries. ANYbotics partners with AWS, NVIDIA, SAP, SLB, Equans, and Siemens Energy for global scaling.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 10 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B Extension post-money
Key facts
CEO
Total fundingsee investors →
Deployed robots
Key customers
Technology partners
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Patent documents
3
Web sources
2
7 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company ANYbotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Createc1× joint1 total
- 2Yokogawa Electric1× joint1 total
Most recent
- with Yokogawa Electricoperating
ANYbotics on the deployment map
View the global map10 verified deployments across 7 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where ANYbotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Western Australia, Australia →Oceania · verified Jun 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Ludwigshafen, Germany →Western Europe · verified Jun 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Petronas Offshore Platform, Malaysia →Southeast Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Brazil →South America · verified Jun 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Global →International · verified Jan 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at United States →United States · verified Jan 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Germany →Western Europe · verified Jan 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Italy →Western Europe · verified Jan 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at Norway →Western Europe · verified Jan 2024
- operationalANYbotics ANYmal at North Sea, Norway →Europe · verified Jan 2024
View the full ANYbotics deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about ANYbotics, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What is a quadruped robot and what are they used for?
What is ANYbotics ANYmal and how is it used for inspection?
What is the cheapest quadruped robot you can buy?
Current leadership (3)
- Andrea Corda CTOreported, not verified
- Péter Fankhauser Co-Founder, CEOsince 2016-01-01secondary-verified
- Marco Hutter Co-founder & CTOsince 2016-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Markus Huttercofounderfounded 2016-01-01no longer at company
- Marco Huttercofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- Péter Fankhausercofounderfounded 2016-01-01
later founded ANYbotics Actuator
Former / Previously (1)
- Markus Hutter Co-Founder, Scientific Advisorsince 2016-01-01secondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for ANYbotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- ANYbotics10 deployments
Recent coverage
ANYbotics in third-party press
Peers
14 peers across 1 segment. Every ANYbotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
quadruped(14)
12 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4981.70981935126) · leader Boston Dynamics at 5660%
- Asylon Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Boston Dynamicsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- DEEP Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Ghost Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- LimX Dynamicsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- MAB Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Supplied by (2)
Sensors
- Oustervia ANYbotics ANYmalVelodyne Puck (VLP-16) LiDARsupplies
Actuators & motors
- maxon Groupcompany-levelmaxon-developed brushless actuators (12 per robot) for ANYbotics ANYmal legged inspection robot (joint develop+produce partnership)supplies
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Total funding
- $132.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company ANYbotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Yokogawa Electricoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Createc1× joint1 total
- 2Yokogawa Electric1× joint1 total
Funding rounds (3)
ANYbotics’s 3 disclosed rounds, $132M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B Extension2024-12-12
$60M(reported) · $480M post
Investors: Qualcomm Ventures (lead), Supernova Invest (lead), TDK Ventures, Walden Catalyst, NGP Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Swisscanto, Swisscom Ventures
- Series B2022-01-27
$50M(reported) · $400M post
Investors: Swisscom Ventures (lead), EquityPitcher Ventures, btov Partners
- Series A2020-01-01
$22M(reported) · $132M post
Investors: Swisscom Ventures (lead), btov Partners
Patent estate (3)
- US20180172121A1usptopendingassignee
- US10253855B2usptograntedgranted 2019-04-09assignee
- CN113168184Acnipapendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in ANYbotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Maxon Motor
2026-08-23Supply: Motors for ANYmal legs from Maxon Motor
New supplierNew supplier: Robert Bosch
2026-08-23Supply: Bosch IMU for ANYmal from Robert Bosch
New supplierNew supplier: Robert Bosch
2026-08-23Supply: Bosch IMU for ANYmal from Robert Bosch
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: NVIDIA Isaac for ANYmal from NVIDIA
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: NVIDIA Jetson for ANYmal from NVIDIA
New supplierNew supplier: maxon Group
2026-06-27Supply: maxon-developed brushless actuators (12 per robot) for ANYbotics ANYmal legged inspection robot (joint develop+produce partnership) from maxon Group
PartnershipANYbotics x Yokogawa (Robot Inspection Integration)
2026-02-10Yokogawa Electric partnered with ANYbotics to integrate OpreX Robot Management Core software with ANYmal X robotic inspection solutions. Enables centralized management of multiple robot types for autonomous plant operations in hazardous industrial environments.
Funding roundSeries B Extension funding round
2024-12-12Series B Extension raising $60000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
ANYmal C Legged Robot - The Next Step in Robotic Industrial Inspection
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 6, 2026
ANYbotics ANYmal autonomous inspection
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
ANYbotics ANYmal at Western Australia, Australia
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
ANYbotics ANYmal at Brazil
Sources (4)
- https://www.anybotics.com/about-us/company/
- https://www.anybotics.com/robotics/anymal-x/
- ANYbotics Raises Additional $60 Million · https://www.anybotics.com/news/anybotics-raises-additional-60-million-to-drive-u-s-expansion/
- ANYbotics raises $60M · https://www.therobotreport.com/anybotics-raises-60m-expands-inspection-robot-deployments-worldwide/
Market intelligence
Hiring signals
Role composition
Recent openings
- Production Technician II (Robotics)Manufacturing
Operations · Zurich, Switzerland
- Product Data Management InternshipEngineering
Robotics & Solutions · Zurich, Switzerland
- Senior Reinforcement Learning EngineerResearch & R&D
Robotics & Solutions · Zurich, Switzerland
- Senior Business Value Engineer, Oil & GasBusiness
Commercial · Zurich, Switzerland
- Manufacturing EngineerManufacturing
Operations · Zurich, Switzerland
- Senior Software Engineer, AutonomyEngineering
Robotics & Solutions · Barcelona, Catalonia
+4 more open roles tracked
Common questions
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Is ANYbotics safe?
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
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High confidence
Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for ANYbotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- DEEP Robotics4 models
- Xiaomi3 models
- GENISOM AI2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning ANYbotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
2,000 humanoids to take on textile production in Chinese firm's push
Jack Technology orders 2,000 humanoid robots for apparel manufacturing and collaborates with Siemens on Industrial AI and humanoid robotics integration.
ANYbotics Raises Additional $60 Million to Drive U.S. Expansion
ANYbotics raises $60M led by Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest, bringing total funding to over $130M for global scaling of its ANYmal inspection robots.
ANYbotics raises $60M to expand inspection robot deployments worldwide
ANYbotics AG raised $60M bringing total funding to over $130M, with large orders from BP, Equinor, Petrobras, Novelis, and Outokumpu for industrial inspection robots.
TDK Ventures Invests in ANYbotics, a World Leader in Industrial Inspection Autonomous Robots
TDK Ventures invests in ANYbotics as approximately 200 ANYmal robots are deployed at industrial facilities for customers including BP, Equinor, Novelis, and Outokumpu.
ANYmal deployed at Northern Lights CCS Facility
Equinor deploys ANYmal autonomous inspection robot at the Northern Lights CCS facility to enhance safety and operational efficiency.
ANYbotics Secures $50M Series B Funding
ANYbotics announces $50M Series B funding led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital to revolutionize industrial inspection with its four-legged robotic workforce.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/anybotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/anybotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/daed272a-219b-40bd-805e-113f095474d9
- Revision history: /companies/anybotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- DEEP Robotics4 models
- Xiaomi3 models
- GENISOM AI2 models
Video
Integrating #ANYmal maximizes benefits by enabling operators to set up alerts, detect anomalies, automate workflows and preventive maintenance, and schedule rou
ANYmal C, the autonomous legged robot designed for industrial challenging environments, provides the mobility, autonomy and inspection intelligence to enable sa
ANYbotics’ collaboration with BASF, one of the largest global chemical manufacturers, displays the efficiency, quality, and scalability of robotic inspection an
🦿 At the SPRINT Robotics World Conference 2023, a challenge was prepared for legged robots: an uneven wooden floor that tests their perception and navigation c
NVIDIA Inception startup ANYbotics, a Swiss robotics company, is transforming industrial inspections with AI-powered autonomous robots trained to collect vital
Zurich-based startup ANYbotics leads the way in developing mobile robotics for industrial inspection. Their autonomous robots provide plant operators with the i
Welcome ANYmal! We are excited to share a preview of our new robotic inspection solution for routine condition monitoring of industrial facilities. --- ANYma
AnyMal from AnyBotics is a 4 Legged Robot with 3 Brains Ready for work ❤❤❤❤ Thanks For You Watching and supporting us! All videos contain information about Gadg
--- ANYbotics, a global leader in AI-driven robot inspection solutions, tackles critical industry challenges in safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Designed
Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
ANYbotics draws attention at the 68th percentile but verifies reality at the 75th percentile among quadrupeds. Hype Gap -7.5, 10th widest among quadrupeds.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 10 verified deployments. Strong deployment footprint with 10 operational sites across 10 countries. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 4, 2026