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Episode 115: Robot dogs working in industry - Benjamin Mottis

Robot Talk · 28 Mar 2025 · 23m · Episode 115

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Benjamin Mottis, Global Research Community Manager at ANYbotics, discusses the deployment of the ANYmal four-legged robot in heavy industries like oil & gas, nuclear, and chemicals. He explains how the robot performs autonomous inspections using sensors such as thermal, acoustic, and gas detectors to enable predictive maintenance and keep humans out of dangerous areas. Mottis also details the company's collaboration with a global research community of over 25 universities, focusing on core robotics, new applications, and industrial data analysis.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationreinforcement learning

ANYbotics deployed reinforcement learning algorithms to train the ANYmal robot's locomotion, enabling it to navigate rough terrain and perform complex movements like jumping and parkour.

“So the 1st one, the lowest level is really on the locomotion. So we were the 1st one to deploy reinforcement learning on quadrupled robots. So to be able to perform this kind of uh, crazy locomotion on all type of terrain or type of uh, rough terrain and stable terrain…”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 15:37

Running the company

The commercial department uses AI tools daily in their work processes.

“even us in the commercial department, we use AI all the day to in our daily work. So it's also at the core of our work.”

Speaker 2 · Hear it at 15:37

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

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Companies
ANYbotics
Products
ANYmal
Also
ETH Zurich, University of Oxford, Stanford

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