🇫🇮 Hyperion Robotics raises $7.4 million to scale physical AI and deliver faster, cheaper and better European infrastructure
Hyperion Robotics has secured $7.4 million in growth funding to scale its robotic microfactories across Europe. The round was co-led by Course Corrected and the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), with participation from RE Ventures  (part of the Romande Energie Group) and existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures and PC Rettig Impact & Co.
Compared to traditional methods, Hyperion’s robotic microfactories produce infrastructure components up to three times faster, cut costs by up to 50% and reduce CO₂ emissions by up to 70%. The company is replacing labour-intensive construction with a factory-based model, deployed close to project sites to reduce logistics, speed up delivery and enable consistent, localised and more cost-efficient production for European infrastructure.
Hyperion’s approach is built on physical AI. At its core is Forge, a software platform that connects design, structural engineering, code-compliance, robotics and factory operations into a single system.
Hyperion’s first UK site, Forge I, will launch in Flixborough near Scunthorpe in partnership with LKAB. The facility will produce infrastructure components for sectors including energy, utilities, water, data centres and carbon capture.
Europe is entering its largest infrastructure renewal cycle in decades. Power grids, water systems and industrial facilities built in the post-war decades now require unprecedented reinvestment, at the same time as demand is accelerating for new data centres, energy capacity and carbon capture infrastructure. Set against labour shortages, budget constraints and decarbonisation pressure, Hyperion’s approach turns infrastructure into a digitally manufactured product rather than a one-off construction project, using up to 75% less material than traditional methods.
Fernando De los Rios, CEO of Hyperion Robotics, commented:
“We’ve already built some of the most efficient concrete structures in the world. With this funding, we start delivering at scale, in factories built next to the projects they serve. Europe doesn’t have the time, the budget or the labour for construction to keep working the way it has. Physical AI is how we close that gap.”
Katja Bergman, Managing Partner at Course Corrected, said:
Hyperion is revolutionising the process of building infrastructure. Not only will they innovate concrete products, but they will do so in an environmentally sustainable way, all at lower costs. We believe they’re setting the standard for what comes next, doing for construction what the previous generation did for manufacturing.
Minna Leisvuori, Senior Investment Advisor at the EIC Fund, said:
“Hyperion is tackling one of the largest and least digitised industries with a scalable, technology-led approach. Their integration of robotics, automation and software has the potential to transform how infrastructure is produced across Europe and around the world.”
The funding will support the launch of Forge I, further development of the Forge platform and Hyperion’s expansion across European infrastructure markets.
The growth funding brings Hyperion’s total capital raised to nearly $20 million as the company moves from project-by-project delivery to industrial-scale production. Hyperion already counts National Grid, Costain, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Anglian Water and United Utilities among its clients.
