ANYbotics Partners with dormakaba and LEGIC for ANYmal Automated Door Access

ANYbotics has partnered with dormakaba and LEGIC Identsystems AG to add automated door-access capabilities to its ANYmal inspection robot fleet, overcoming closed barriers in processing plants.

Jacob Euler-Rolle, Product Manager for Workflow Integration at ANYbotics, stated:

"Inspection only delivers value if the robot can reach the asset, and a closed door was the one obstacle that stopped our robots from covering the most critical parts of a plant. Solving it with LEGIC and dormakaba means ANYmal can now inspect where it matters most, without rebuilding any infrastructure."

Péter Fankhauser, Co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics, stated:

"Our customers do not buy robots; they buy a solution to their operational challenges: less unplanned downtime and fewer people in hazardous areas. With dormakaba and LEGIC, ANYmal can move through doors like any authorized colleague, under the same rules and the same audit trail. The access-controlled door pilot has proven this works in a live operating environment, and we will now make that function available as an add-on across the entire ANYmal fleet."

When ANYmal approaches an unlocked door, a radar sensor triggers a retrofitted dormakaba swing-door operator to open automatically. For locked areas, ANYmal uses a secure LEGIC digital credential payload to request electronic entry via dormakaba's exos access management system.

Brian Carroll, Maintenance Engineer at GE Vernova Whitegate, stated:

"The door-passage solution allows ANYmal to move seamlessly between plant zones without compromising safety or security rules. By letting the door open automatically for the robot, we can automate routine inspection runs across the entire facility while keeping fire and security barriers intact."

ANYbotics expects to make the security-credentialed door access feature available across current deployments and future hardware platforms later this year.