New Partnership to Deploy Robot Dogs to Inspect U.S. Power and Utility Facilities

The collaboration paves the way for highly automated inspections.

Anymal conducting autonomous inspection missions at a power distribution facility.
Anymal conducting autonomous inspection missions at a power distribution facility.
Anybotics

Anybotics and Gresco have partnered to transform industrial inspections for U.S. power and utility facilities. Anybotics brings its advanced robotic solution, Anymal, specifically designed to meet the needs of the industry. Gresco strengthens its impact with its local expertise, integration experience, and full-service support. Together, they set a new standard for inspection efficiency, accuracy, and safety.

Gresco is enhancing its technology capabilities by integrating the Anybotics robot, Anymal, into its portfolio. This will transform U.S. power and utilities inspections with Gresco’s expertise in inspection drones and digital twins, delivering unmatched autonomous inspection solutions focused on safety, efficiency, and accuracy.

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Leveraging Gresco’s local knowledge, industry relationships, and prominent role in the ecosystem, Anybotics is now better equipped to meet the unique inspection needs of this market while enhancing customer support.

This partnership paves the way for highly automated, high-precision inspection processes across transmission, distribution, and generation, setting a new industry standard.

Anymal is a rugged, autonomous, and highly mobile inspection solution with mission-ready payloads engineered for industrial inspections and condition monitoring in complex and hazardous environments. As an end-to-end solution, Anymal automates real-time data collection and integration through superior mobility, autonomy, and intelligence. Anymal provides power and utility operators with insights to maximize equipment uptime, reduce operating costs, and improve safety by keeping workers out of harm’s way.

The Gresco-Anybotics partnership highlights the rising demand for robotic inspections in power and utilities.

These dog-like robots are allowing industrial companies to maximize the impact of enterprise-level autonomous robots. One company even installed generative AI into it's fleet of four-legged security robots to give them a personality. The hope is to make them more approachable to employees that otherwise find anthropomorphic robot coworkers unsettling.

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