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Robot dog maker ANYbotics launches Shift, software to run inspection robot fleets

Swiss company ANYbotics says it has launched Shift, a cloud platform that schedules its ANYmal four-legged robots on plant inspection rounds and turns their readings into maintenance work orders. The company says Shift is already used across more than 200 robot deployments and runs hundreds of thousands of inspections a month. It has four modules covering fleet scheduling, sensor analysis, plant mapping, and links into software like SAP, IBM Maximo and GE Vernova APM.

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Why this matters

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Refineries, cotton gins, power plants and chemical sites around the South Plains run on walkarounds by maintenance crews checking heat, noise and leaks. This kind of software is pitched as sending a robot on those rounds and routing findings straight to a work order, which could change what inspection jobs look like over time. But every number here comes from ANYbotics and its partners, and the source does not say what Shift costs or whether any Texas plant is using it.

What we know

  • ANYbotics AG, based in Zurich, launched a platform called ANYbotics Shift.
  • ANYbotics says Shift has four modules: Fleet, Insight, Connect and Maps.
  • Shift Insight combines thermal, acoustic, visual and gas readings with conditions such as motor speed, load and ambient temperature.
  • Shift Connect links findings to control systems, maintenance software, ERP tools like SAP and IBM Maximo, and platforms such as GE Vernova APM, Cognite and Oracle.
  • ANYbotics says Shift is in use across more than 200 robot deployments and handles hundreds of thousands of inspections each month.
  • The company says Shift ran more than 33,000 autonomous inspections over 16 months at a Vigier Cement plant.
  • ANYbotics cites an estimate that undetected failures cost the world's 500 largest companies about $1.4 trillion a year in downtime, with an hour of outage averaging $250,000.

What we don't know

  • Only one authoritative outlet found so far — no second independent source yet.
  • Exact event date not confirmed — publicationDate used as the best-known date.
  • The price of Shift is not stated.
  • Whether the $1.4 trillion downtime figure has been checked by anyone outside ANYbotics is not stated.
  • It is not stated whether any plant in Texas or the United States is using Shift today.
  • The number of maintenance jobs affected at any customer site is not stated.
  • The exact date full fleet management for non-ANYmal robots will arrive is not stated, only that it starts rolling out next year.

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