“Customers are not buying a robot. They’re buying uptime.”
Péter, Co-founder and CEO of Anybotics, started building four-legged robots as a student at ETH Zurich with zero business plan. Just curiosity about whether a machine could climb stairs like a mountain goat.
Then oil and gas companies came knocking. Their facilities were full of stairs, confined spaces, and hazardous zones, and they needed something to walk through them daily, collecting data that fixed sensors couldn’t catch.
Today, Anybotics has hundreds of robots deployed globally.
In today’s episode of BitBuilders, we had Péter from Anybotics and we got to dig into how a university spin-out became one of the most commercially deployed robotics companies in heavy industry.
Tune in to find out about:
✅ Why four-legged robots beat drones and fixed sensors in real industrial environments
✅ How Anybotics uses AI across the full stack, from reinforcement learning locomotion to predictive maintenance
✅ The truth about hardware commoditization and why cheaper quadrupeds aren’t a threat to mission-critical deployments
✅ Why deploying robots in refineries is closer to implementing SAP than buying a car
🎧 Watch now on Spotify & YouTube.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:45 Introduction to Anybotics and Robotics Journey
03:17 Customer Discovery and Use Case Exploration
06:29 Challenges in Industrial Inspection
11:39 Technical Requirements for Quadruped Robots
16:26 Integration and Deployment Challenges
22:52 Market Dynamics and Future Outlook
24:09 Partnerships and System Integration
26:16 The Future of Robotics and OEMs
28:55 Humanoids vs. Specialized Robots
33:02 AI and Robotics: A Perfect Match
39:52 Building Trust and Reliability in Robotics
44:40 Advice for Aspiring Robotics Builders
