ANYmal Robots Transform Power Industry with GMV and Elewit Collaboration

GMV, a multinational technology leader, and ANYbotics, a pioneering innovator in autonomous inspection robots, are revolutionizing industrial inspections in the power sector. Partnering with Elewit, Red Eléctrica Group’s innovation platform, this collaboration demonstrates how autonomous robots enhance efficiency, worker safety, and sustainability. By automating critical inspection tasks in challenging environments, ANYmal robots reduce human risk, optimize resource use, and support the industry’s shift toward a sustainable, resilient future.

ASUMO Project: Inspection of electrical substations using autonomous mobile robotics.

ANYmal robots are revolutionizing the energy industry by increasing safety, streamlining operations, and reducing the carbon footprint. These advanced, four-legged robots are designed for complex industrial environments. They move autonomously in hazardous areas such as substations to perform precise inspections and collect real-time data for predictive maintenance. With its robust mobility and sophisticated design, ANYmal is ideally suited to meet the demands of challenging industrial environments and highlights the central role of autonomous robots in creating a safer, more sustainable future for the energy sector.

GMV’s uPathWay solution seamlessly integrated into the ANYmal robot, enhancing operations at the electrical substation.

As a robust, autonomous inspection solution, ANYmal has ready-to-use payloads for industrial inspections and condition monitoring in complex, high-risk areas. As an end-to-end solution, it automates data collection and integration and leverages advanced mobility, autonomy, and intelligence to maximize asset uptime and reduce operating costs. ANYmal keeps workers out of harm’s way, improves safety, and provides key insights to plant operators, making it a transformative tool in the industrial landscape.

The partnership between GMV and ANYbotics advances robotic technology in industrial inspections by combining GMV’s expertise in control systems, AI, and cybersecurity with ANYbotics’ autonomous robotics. Integrating GMV’s uPathWay solution with ANYmal robots enhances AI and reporting capabilities using the images and videos gathered by the robot, outdoor navigation, real-time fleet optimization, and reliability. With precise GNSS accuracy and dynamic routing, this collaboration sets new standards for efficiency and safety in industrial applications.

The collaboration between GMV and ANYbotics has already shown significant success. The consortium won a tender from Spanish grid operator Elewit/Red Eléctrica as part of the ASUMO project.

The uPathWay-ANYmal end-to-end solution successfully addressed the ASUMO project objectives by automating inspection tasks through advanced robotics and AI, enhancing data collection and imaging substation assets to monitor status and predict issues. Leveraging GMV’s fleet management capabilities and ANYbotics’ ANYmal robot, Elewit showcased the practical benefits of autonomous inspection in real-world applications, optimizing remote operations through a digital twin that enables preventive and corrective maintenance with real-time alerts to protect transmission network assets. This achievement underscores Elewit’s commitment to innovation, sustainability, and a forward-thinking digitalization strategy.

uPathWay interface being used by Elewit at the Fuencarral electricity substation in Madrid.

Leveraging GMV’s fleet management capabilities and ANYbotics’ ANYmal robot, Elewit showcased the practical benefits of autonomous inspection in real-world applications, optimizing remote operations through a digital twin that enables preventive and corrective maintenance with real-time alerts to protect transmission network assets. This achievement underscores Elewit’s commitment to innovation, sustainability, and a forward-thinking digitalization strategy.

GMV is a privately owned technology business group founded in 1984 and trading on a worldwide scale in the following sectors: Space, Aeronautics, Defense and Security, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Automotive, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and IT for government authorities and major corporations. In 2023, the company posted a total income of over €384 million. With more than 3,300 employees, it currently has subsidiaries in Spain, the USA, Germany, France, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia, and Colombia, with 75% of its revenue derived from international projects on five continents. The company’s growth strategy is based on continuous innovation, allowing it to reinvest over 10% of its profits in its own R&D.

As a technology platform for Redeia, Elewit is responsible for driving energy transition and connectivity to create a sustainable future. To this end, it offers solutions to the new challenges facing the electricity and telecommunications sectors, always acting in accordance with its founding principles, ethics, and compliance, to ensure the proper operation of its activities. Through collaborations like the ASUMO Project, Elewit is at the forefront of digitalization and automation in the energy sector.