A Sequence A funding spherical supplied €14m of the overall.
A Luxembourg-founded robotics firm will use new whole funding of €20m to scale its automated disassembly of electrical autos for preservation and recycling of invaluable supplies similar to lithium batteries.
R3 Robotics, previously Circu Li-ion, goals to broaden its facility in Karlsruhe, Germany – which harvests excessive worth elements throughout disassembly of electrical car programs – to “allow totally automated disassembly throughout complete car programs”, it stated.
The vast majority of the brand new funding, €14m, was raised in a Sequence A spherical co-led by HG Ventures and Suma Capital with participation from others. The remaining €6m got here from European grants.
The corporate stated it needs to handle the challenges of coping with fashionable society’s rising volumes of end-of-life electrical system elements, whereas bettering effectivity and maximising the restoration and recycling of essential supplies according to EU insurance policies.
“The bottleneck isn’t recycling know-how; it’s clear feedstock, that means getting advanced electrified programs safely and cost-effectively dismantled at an industrial scale,” stated Antoine Welter, CEO and co-founder of R3 Robotics.
“We’re constructing a dismantling platform that turns end-of-life programs right into a strategic supply of essential supplies and reusable elements for superior industrial economies.”
The corporate stated its dismantling course of combines pc imaginative and prescient, AI and specialised robotic tooling to automate the disassembly of lithium-ion battery packs, e-motors, energy electronics, and different high-value electrified elements.
“R3 Robotics is addressing a essential industrial bottleneck within the provide of strategic uncooked supplies,” stated John Glushik of HG Ventures.
The system additionally minimises human publicity to high-voltage hazards and whereas delivering the price construction and reliability wanted for industrial-scale operations, in accordance with R3.
Natalia Ruiz of Suma Capital stated: “This functionality is essential to unlocking supplies and elements at scale.”
R3 will even use the funding for hiring, scaling alongside European companions and making ready for entry into the US market later in 2026. The corporate was based in 2021 by Welter and Xavier Kohll.
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