ANYmal X, the four-legged inspection robot from Zurich-based ANYbotics, is the subject of a 2-minute-6-second clip the company published to introduce it as a robot built for explosive atmospheres in oil, gas and chemical plants. The upload carries no narration. ANYbotics says it has begun delivering the robot, and the open question is whether the first commercial units can hold a schedule the company has slipped before.

Two minutes of the X, no voice

The title names the robot and its job: “Introducing ANYmal X – The autonomous inspection robot built for explosive atmospheres.” The description says ANYmal X “walks inspection routes across stairs, narrow walkways and multi-level process areas, reaching assets beyond the fixed-sensor grid.” On every round it “captures visual, thermal and acoustic asset-condition data, with optional gas sensing.” Each inspection builds “a consistent, structured record of what is happening across the route.” With ANYbotics Shift, “reliability and maintenance teams can track changes over time, review anomalies and connect inspection results to the systems their plant already uses.” The description closes by saying the robot “helps reduce routine human exposure to hazardous areas and gives teams better information for maintenance decisions.” No narration runs over the footage, and the clip runs two minutes and six seconds.

From the 2019 C to the 2022 X

This is the third public step in the line. ANYbotics presented ANYmal C in August 2019, the first ANYmal built for commercial industrial inspection, with a sealed IP67 body. ANYmal X was unveiled in March 2022 as an explosion-proof variant certified for Zone 1 explosive atmospheres, with ATEX/IECEx certification. The independent coverage from October 27, 2026, adds that the company describes the robot as developed over four years and supported by more than ten patents, and that BP, Equinor, Shell, Petronas, Petrobras, BASF and SLB have “tested the technology across hundreds of onshore and offshore missions” since 2023. The clip itself makes no mention of any of this history.

The numbers this clip leaves out

The clip and description never state how fast the robot walks, how long a battery lasts, or what it weighs. ANYbotics publishes no mass, dimensions, payload, runtime or speed for ANYmal X; its product page reads “2026 ANYmal X specifications coming soon.” A follow-up clip could show the robot on a live plant floor, capturing thermal readings from a specific asset and handing them to Shift. It could also show the gas-sensing option in action, which the description lists but does not demonstrate. The parkour footage often associated with ANYmal is ETH Zurich research, not a demonstration of the commercial product.

What the upload says and skips

• Stated: The description says the robot “captures visual, thermal and acoustic asset-condition data, with optional gas sensing.”
• Stated: The description says “ANYmal X helps reduce routine human exposure to hazardous areas.”
• Stated: The description states ANYbotics has “over CHF 70M in funding” and a “200-expert team.”
• Not stated: The clip gives no playback speed, no operator, and no runtime figure for a single inspection round.
• Not stated: The description does not name the oil, gas or chemical plants where the footage was shot.

One route, then the whole plant

Boston Dynamics, Unitree Robotics, Deep Robotics, Ghost Robotics and AgileX Robotics all work on the same industrial-inspection problem. For ANYmal X to matter, the Zone 1 certification has to survive contact with real plants: the independent coverage says the robot uses “nitrogen-filled sealed chambers housing its AI computer and inspection equipment, flameproof casings for its twelve leg actuators and battery, and automatic temperature monitoring and cutoffs.” ANYbotics says its inspection system is “already used by more than 50 customers” to conduct “over 120,000 autonomous inspections each month.” If the certification holds up across those deployments, the next step is scaling from one robot on one route to inspection coverage across an entire plant, as the description frames it.

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Source: Introducing ANYmal X – The autonomous inspection robot built for explosive atmospheres by ANYbotics , published 2026-10-27. This article was written automatically from the video above and has not been independently verified.