AILOS Robotics Raises €3.5M To Boost Gearbox Production For Europe’s Robots

The funding highlights Europe’s focus on building a local, strategic supply of components for the growing humanoid and collaborative robotics markets.

AILOS is a spin-off of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and its BruBotics research center. After a decade of research supported by VLAIO (Flanders) and Innoviris (Brussels), the company has developed and validated its minimum viable product, the R2poweR gearbox.

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The R2poweR gearbox is designed for humanoids, cobots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics. It allows smooth, human-friendly interaction with low backdrive torque, delivers high torque density for heavily loaded joints, and helps reduce robot weight, energy use and noise. The design is also scalable, cost-effective, and suitable for high-volume robotics manufacturing.

According to Pablo López García, CEO and co-founder of AILOS Robotics, the next generation of robots needs a new kind of actuation to meet demands for smoother, more efficient, and human-friendly movement.

We combine quasi-direct drive-like backdrivability with the high torque density of advanced gearing, finally removing one of the main barriers to agile, lightweight, and safe robots that can operate alongside humans.

Having moved from research to a market-ready product, AILOS Robotics is now transitioning from lab to factory. The company is working with robot manufacturers on pilot projects, industrial partners to scale production and supply chains and investors to support Europe’s leadership in strategic automation technologies.

The new funding will help AILOS industrialize a new class of robotic gearboxes that combine the agility of quasi-direct drives with much higher torque density, enabling robots that are lighter, safer, more affordable, and more energy-efficient.

About AILOS Robotics

AILOS Robotics creates agile, lightweight, and efficient gearboxes for humanoids, collaborative robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics. By delivering high torque density and smooth human-friendly motion, AILOS enables robots that are safer, more energy-efficient and affordable, while supporting scalable manufacturing and strengthening Europe’s leadership in human-centric robotics.