ANYbotics ANYmal

A Swiss industrial-inspection quadruped from ANYbotics, and a classic platform for legged reinforcement-learning research.

ANYmal originated at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, with its first version appearing in 2016, the same year the team founded ANYbotics to commercialize it. The current ANYmal D weighs about 50 kg unloaded and can carry roughly 10 kg of inspection payload; ANYmal X is an explosion-proof version for sites with explosion risk, such as petrochemical plants. It is sold mainly to power plants and the oil, gas, and chemical industries for autonomous inspection, reading gauges, checking temperatures, and listening for abnormal sounds in place of a person. In academia, ANYmal is a landmark platform for legged locomotion-control research: landmark work on actuator networks, which fit a neural network to motor characteristics, teacher-student distillation for blind locomotion, and perceptive locomotion combining terrain sensing was all done on it and published in Science Robotics.

ExampleETH's Miki and colleagues had ANYmal, in 2022, combine exteroception and proprioception to complete a hiking trail up Switzerland's Mount Etzel.

Also called

ANYmal

Related

Quadruped Robot · ANYbotics · ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab · ANYmal RL Locomotion Series · Inspection Robot · Perceptive Locomotion

Sources

ANYmal - ANYbotics
ANYmal - Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

As of

2026-09