The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Recycleye: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $17.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryIndustrial Robots
Appears inManufacturing robots
Overview
Recycleye is a London-based AI and robotics waste sorting company founded in 2019 by CEO Victor Dewulf and CTO Peter Hedley, spun out of Imperial College London. The company combines computer vision (Recycleye Vision) with 6-axis robotic arms (Recycleye Robotics) to identify and sort recyclable materials at 55 picks per minute.
Its technology is deployed across the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, and the US. In April 2026, Recycleye was acquired by CP Group , a leading US-based MRF integrator, expanding CP Group's AI-driven sorting portfolio.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
CTO
Series A
Product
Fundingsee investors →
Status
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Recycleye has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1FANUC1× joint
- 2FANUC Corporation1× joint11 total
Most recent
- Recycleye x FANUC2022-01-01with FANUC Corporationoperating
- Recycleye x FANUC2021-09-20with FANUCoperating
Recycleye on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Sep 2021. Explore where Recycleye's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Recycleye deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Peter Hedley Co-founder & CTOsecondary-verified
- Victor Dewulf Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Victor Dewulfcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Recycleye.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Recycleye1 deployment
Recent coverage
Recycleye in third-party press
Peers
75 peers across 1 segment. Every Recycleye competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
industrial robot(75)
33 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2051.61304640928) · leader Mind Robotics at 3415%
- ABB Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- AMP Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- BD Rowadirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Comaudirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Diakontdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- EFORT Intelligent Equipmentdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Total funding
- $17.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Recycleye has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Recycleye x FANUC2022-01-01with FANUC Corporationoperating
- Recycleye x FANUC2021-09-20with FANUCoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1FANUC1× joint
- 2FANUC Corporation1× joint11 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2022-01-01operating
- Recycleye x FANUCwithFANUCmanufacturing2021-09-20operating
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2023-01-01
$17M(reported) · $102M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Recycleye’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2023-01-01Series A raising $17000000
PartnershipRecycleye x FANUC
2022-01-01Recycleye combined its AI computer-vision waste-recognition technology with FANUC's robotics and automation experience to deploy and scale Recycleye Robotics, an AI-powered robotic waste-picking system for material recovery facilities.
PartnershipRecycleye x FANUC
2021-09-20Recycleye partnered with FANUC to develop a retrofittable and affordable automated sorting solution for the waste management industry. FANUC's automation engineers designed Recycleye Robotics to weigh 75 percent less than existing robotic waste pickers, using FANUC 6-axis robotic arms paired with Recycleye Vision AI.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedSep 20, 2021
Recycleye Robotics at Reading, Berkshire, UK
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Recycleye.Peer companies
- Savoye5 models
- Ambi Robotics2 models
- DENSO Corporation2 models
- FANUC Corporation2 models
- Mitsubishi Electric FA2 models
- Plus One Robotics2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Recycleye from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
CP Group Acquires Recycleye, a Leading Provider of AI-Based Sorting Technologies
CP Group acquired a majority stake in Recycleye, expanding its AI-driven sorting capabilities. The companies had collaborated since 2023 on the Vivid-AI optical sorter with 23+…
Recycleye raises $17M in Series A funding
Recycleye raised $17M in Series A funding for its AI-powered waste sorting robotics technology, installed in recycling facilities across Europe.
Recycleye raises 7m in Series A to reinvent recycling
Recycleye secured 7M in Series A funding led by DCVC to scale its AI-powered waste-picking robots, with installations across England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Australia, the…
re3 partners with Recycleye to install England's first retrofittable AI waste-picking robot
re3, the waste management partnership between FCC Environment and three Berkshire councils, installed England's first AI-powered robotic waste picking system at its MRF in…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/recycleye.md
- RSS feed: /companies/recycleye/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b06817b7-6181-45f2-b490-895c305c5f5b
- Revision history: /companies/recycleye/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Savoye5 models
- Ambi Robotics2 models
- DENSO Corporation2 models
- FANUC Corporation2 models
- Mitsubishi Electric FA2 models
- Plus One Robotics2 models
Video
Discover how Recycleye is bringing advanced machine learning, computer vision and robotics to the global waste management industry. Learn more at 🔗 https://bit.ly/40iwg57 Subscribe to the CIWM YouTube channel [@CIWMH
Recycleye QualiBot® helps reduce costs by automating your manual picking operations, bringing you quality results with up to 33,000 objects picked per 10-hour s
Increasing your belt speed can improve your material spread. Recycleye QualiBot® is now available to pick on belts of 1.2 m/s, accurately recovering recyclables
A video taken on day 1 of a new Recycleye QualiBot® installation, in which the picker is targeting PET bottles of all colours from a mixed plastic stream. Picki
A video montage showing installations of Recycleye robotic technology on a variety of lines, working at customers' sites.
Watch our waste-sorting robots in action in MRFs and recycling facilities across Europe
Hear from our Hardware Engineer Tom as he describes why we believe the Recycleye Robotics pneumatics and gripper system are the best solution for picking dry mi
Chapter 2 of our webinar entitled 'Sorting Plastic Waste - An AI-driven success story', which offers unique insights on the success deployment of AI to identify
Our webinar offers unique insights on the success deployment of AI to identify and sort plastic waste in a MRF. Featuring Rory Brien, General Manager at FCC re
This webinar offers valuable insights on how to manage risk when considering and deploying robotic automation in a MRF. Our special guest was Jarek Stanislawek
In 2024, our robots got faster. Designed by innovation, and refined through application. The second generation of Recycleye QualiBot® features robot code opt
Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Recycleye draws attention at the 27th percentile but verifies reality at the 19th percentile among industrial_robot robots. Hype Gap +8.4, 13th widest among industrial_robot robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026