ANYbotics移动以精简机器人车队业务、规模检查

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The ANYmal quadruped now works with ANYbotics Shift for autonomous inspections. Source: ANYbotics Undetected failures cost the world’s 500 largest companies an estimated $1.4 trillion each year in downtime, with a single hour of outage averaging $250,000, according to ANYbotics AG. The company today launched ANYbotics Shift, a platform intended to simplify asset health assessments and enable preventive maintenance. “The new platform empowers businesses to harness the full potential of autonomous inspection by planning and running multi-robot missions, while organizing captured field data directly around existing asset management infrastructure,” explained ANYbotics. “Robotic inspection delivers the most value when field data flows directly into maintenance action,” stated Péter Fankhauser, co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics. “Shift makes that seamless. It unifies plant mapping, robot fleet coordination, inspection AI analytics, and systems integrations into one platform. At its core, Shift AI powers the intelligence that transforms field findings into work orders, saving millions in avoiding unplanned downtime.” Founded in 2016, ANYbotics said its ANYmal quadruped robots are suitable for tasks including routine inspections and real-time data collection, addressing labor shortages and improving worker safety. The Zurich-based company serves the global energy , power , metals, mining , and chemicals industries. ANYbotics said its cloud-based platform delivers visibility, action, and measurable impact through four interconnected modules: This bi-directional integration allows process thresholds to automatically trigger new robot inspection rounds, while an integrated notification center delivers real-time alerts through tools such as email and Microsoft Teams. ANYbotics plans to add SMS and WhatsApp support. Shift Maps provides a live digital twin of a manufacturing plant. It maps inspection targets into APM and enterprise asset management (EAM) infrastructures. Structures are imported by asset ID, so every reading is tied to the right piece of equipment. ANYbotics said the transition from its Data Navigator asset management product to Shift will be automatic with an upcoming update. Shift AI learns from every connected module, which operates from the same plant model. Shift includes modules for fleet management, maps and deployments, workflow integration, and asset intelligence. Source: ANYbotics Jacob Euler-Rolle, head of product management and workflow integration at ANYbotics, replied to the following questions from The Robot Report : How much integration work with enterprise systems is required for a first-time customer? Euler-Rolle: Very little. Shift is designed to work with the systems your plant already runs, so a first-time deployment requires no enterprise integration at all, it operates the fleet and delivers findings independently right out of the box. When users are ready to connect their ANYmal or ANYmals to their software stack, we offer pre-built integrations through our partnerships with SAP, GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, Cognite, SLB, and Yokogawa. For any other system, the Shift REST API (documented with OpenAPI) links its data and findings to their CMMS or APM and enables their existing platforms to trigger inspections. Our team can also build custom connectors during onboarding, if required. So for users, the effort is very minimal and largely limited to granting network access, securing approvals, and mapping asset IDs to align with their plant’s existing asset hierarchy. The Shift API connects the ANYbot fleet to digital twins, asset performance management platforms, enterprise software, and facility systems. Source: ANYbotics Euler-Rolle: Training takes just a few days rather than weeks, and users require no prior robotics expertise. The entire onboarding process is organized by job role through our ANYbotics Academy, which has already trained over 1,000 users. Because Shift uses role-based acc