ANYbotics announced on October 27 that customer deliveries of ANYmal X have begun, naming Equinor and DSM-Firmenich among recipients. The legged robot is designed for inspection in explosive atmospheres at oil, gas and chemical facilities. The company describes ATEX and IECEx protection, including sealed nitrogen-filled chambers for computing and inspection equipment.
According to ANYbotics, early-access testing began in 2023 and covered hundreds of onshore and offshore missions. The announcement’s figure of 120,000 monthly inspections refers to the broader inspection system across power, metals and materials customers; it is not an ANYmal X fleet total.
NAOAT analysis
The commercial significance is access to a demanding class of worksite. A robot’s ability to climb stairs says little about whether its electrical and mechanical components can operate around flammable material. Those are different engineering problems. Bringing them together potentially expands the portion of a facility that an automated inspection service can cover, rather than simply adding another mobile device to an already accessible floor.
That distinction also changes how the shipment milestone should be interpreted. It establishes a delivery phase, while leaving the operating record of the newly delivered fleet to develop. A launch announcement cannot establish how frequently customers will intervene, how much maintenance the robots themselves will require or whether avoided human exposure translates into a measurable improvement across an entire facility.
For industrial members, this is a more concrete development than another navigation demonstration: hardware is entering customer operations. Its lasting value will emerge from the consistency of inspections and the reliability of the complete service, alongside the hazardous-area protections that make deployment possible.