Péter Fankhauser
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at ANYbotics
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPéter Fankhauser is a robotics entrepreneur and CEO with over a decade of hands-on experience building legged robots and AI-driven autonomy, co-founding ANYbotics and leading the company from lab prototype to a global commercial player. With a doctorate from ETH Zurich and cross-disciplinary training that includes MIT and Tohoku University, he blends deep control and kinematics expertise with business leadership honed at IMD. Péter has driven core software contributions—such as C++ elevation mapping and kinematics integrations for ROS—in foundational open-source repos used for rough-terrain navigation and robot dynamics. Under his leadership ANYbotics’ ANYmal is deployed across heavy industries, and the company has secured $130M from top international and Silicon Valley investors. He combines academic rigour with product focus, unusually maintaining active technical contributions while scaling a capital-backed robotics business.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics, Robotics at Tohoku University2006 Mathematics Physics Sport, 2006 Mathematics Physics Sport at Alte Kantonsschule AarauFoundations for Business Leadership (FBL) Business Administration and Management General, Foundations for Business Leadership (FBL) Business Administration and Management General at IMDEntrepreneurship and Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. sc. ETH Zurich Robotics, Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Robotics at ETH Zürich
Hungarian, German, French, English
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Github Skills (11)
c-language10
robotics10
eigen10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
ros10
operating-system10
dynamics9
kinematics9
mappings9
linear-algebra8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ANYbotics/elevation_mapping
Nov 2013 - Mar 2019
Robot-centric elevation mapping for rough terrain navigation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:294 commits, 25 PRs, 82 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Péter implemented the initial core functionality for an elevation map using C++, which included creating the ElevationMap class and reading configuration parameters. Their work focused on the point cloud processing, including filtering and transformation, and later publishing the elevation map. They added a custom ROS message for publishing the elevation map data, demonstrating expertise in robotics and ROS.
navigationroboticspythonrobotmapping
ANYbotics/kindr
Mar 2014 - Aug 2018
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Péter primarily focused on modifying and extending the functionality of the robotics kinematics and dynamics library. Their contributions included refactoring code by changing the physical type definitions and fixing include guards to ensure code correctness. Furthermore, the user added conversions and implemented methods for ROS (Robot Operating System) tf (transform) messages to Kindr library. These changes reflect work on third-party integrations and core library components.
roboticskinematicsurdfdynamicsgazebosim
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