By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – ANYmal has for some time had no proble m coping with the stony terrain of Swiss hiking trails. Now researchers at ETH Z urich have taught this quadrupedal robot some new skills: it is proving rather a dept at parkour, a sport based on using athletic manoeuvres to smoothly negotiat e obstacles in an urban environment, which has become very popular. ANYmal is al so proficient at dealing with the tricky terrain commonly found on building site s or in disaster areas.