R3 Robotics Raises €20M To Expand Automated EV Recycling in Europe

The investment includes €14 million in Series A funding and €6 million in European public grants supporting large-scale deployment amid growing end-of-life EV component volumes worldwide.

“The bottleneck isn’t recycling technology; it’s clean feedstock, meaning getting complex electrified systems safely and cost-effectively dismantled at an industrial scale,” said Antoine Welter, CEO and co-founder of R3 Robotics.

The funding round was co-led by HG Ventures and Suma Capital, with participation from Oetker Collection KG, the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), and existing investors, including BONVENTURE, FlixFounders, and EIT Urban Mobility.

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R3 Robotics was founded in 2022 as Circu Li-ion by Antoine Welter and Dr. Xavier Kohll. Since then, it has been deploying its automated disassembly solution for lithium-ion batteries from micromobility providers, such as e-bikes and e-scooters, successfully recycling reusable battery cells from retired battery packs.

“Automated disassembly at this level of complexity represents one of the toughest challenges in industrial robotics: managing variability, safety, and throughput simultaneously,” said Peter Mohnen, former CEO of KUKA and board member of R3 Robotics. “R3’s approach demonstrates the depth of automation expertise required to make this work at scale.”

R3 Robotics is a European company specialising in industrial-scale automated disassembly of electrified systems. Its mission is to recover maximum value from end-of-life electric vehicle components using safe, data-driven, and scalable robotic processes. The company combines advanced robotics with AI to enable efficient, sustainable, and high-volume battery and EV system recycling.

“We’re building a dismantling platform that turns end-of-life systems into a strategic source of critical materials and reusable components for advanced industrial economies.” “R3 Robotics is addressing a critical industrial bottleneck in the supply of strategic raw materials,” said John Glushik at HG Ventures. “Scalable dismantling infrastructure is essential to strengthen resilience and secure access to critical inputs.”