2023年2月3日

總部位於倫敦的人工智能垃圾機器人公司Recycleye在由深度科技風險投資公司DCVC(也支持Smartex)領投的a輪融資中獲得了1700萬美元。現有投資者包括Promus Ventures、Playfair Capital (Skiller Whale、CryptoFacilities、Omnipresent、Thought Machine、Cauldron、Qureight)、MMC Ventures、Creator Fund和非典型，馬德裏的新投資者Seaya Andromeda也加入了進來。在此之前，A輪融資曾在2021年籌集了500萬美元，迄今為止在歐洲和英國政府創新融資中獲得了260萬美元。最新的資金將使Recycleye能夠擴展其技術，以徹底改變全球廢物管理。首席執行官兼聯合創始人維克多·德伍爾夫補充說:“即使目前隻有8%的廢物被回收，但將人工智能廢物分類技術應用於全球廢物管理行業的機會也是驚人的。”“有了這筆投資，我們可以擴大業務規模，瞄準一個我們估計目前全球資產管理規模為1140億美元的市場，但當分揀成本降低時，市場規模有可能增長14倍，達到1.6萬億美元。”由Victor Dewulf (CEO)和Peter Hedley (CTO)創立的Recycleye為全球廢物管理行業帶來了先進的機器學習、計算機視覺和機器人技術。這家英國公司使用的是由人工智能驅動的拾垃圾機器人Recycleye Robotics，它能以無與倫比的每秒60幀的速度掃描和識別物體。該公司稱，這是行業標準的兩倍。此外，每件物品在傳送帶上平均出現30次，在挑選前被準確識別的幾率增加了一倍。 Recycleye says it was developed for use with the waste generated by households and businesses and can operate 24/7, 365 days a year, currently picking up to 33,000 items per robot over a 10-hour shift while capturing compositional data to enable strategic decisions by plant managers. “We believe that waste does not exist, only materials in the wrong place,” says Hedley. “Our mission is to provide intelligent sorting technology that delivers dramatic financial and environmental returns to global waste management. This new investment will help us to fine-tune our world-leading solutions further, underpinned by the solid maintenance network our clients need to generate more output value”. Consequently, the company claims this solution is turning the world’s waste into resources and delivering data essential for dynamic decision-making in a Material Recovery Facility (MRF). Recycleye claims its engineers can retrofit the company’s technology into existing sorting facilities over a weekend to minimise plant downtime. Installed at the end of the sorting process, Recycleye robot models can pick contaminants and valuable objects, depending on client requirements. Rory Brien, General Manager of FCC for re3 in Reading, England, says, “At FCC, we believe in being forward-thinking, so investing in the latest waste sorting technology was an obvious choice. Recycleye Robotics delivers the consistent purity in sorted material and reliable data that we need to run an effective facility”. Kelly Chen, a Partner at DCVC, said, “Recycleye is a quintessential DCVC investment, using deep tech to fundamentally shift the economics and scale of the trillion-dollar problem of material recovery and recycling.”