“This Rose City Robotics technology has the potential to improve throughput, increase yields and reduce downstream costs of recycling. This innovation can help significantly increase the percentage of lithium-ion batteries recycled as well as the quality and usefulness of materials recovered.”

“The company believes that RCR’s proposed automated disassembly technology could serve as a force multiplier that would enable our current disassembly team to greatly increase the number of packs they are able to disassemble while also providing them with an additional level of safety.”

“Probably the biggest bottleneck we face in the second life business is quick dismantling of packs whilst being safe too.”

“We can see real benefit in the robotized dismantling of EV batteries from both a safety and economic perspective. Dismantling batteries ahead of shredding is a great way to improve black mass quality.”

“Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is pleased to participate with Rose City Robotics in response to the Department of Energy (DOE) American Made Challenge - Lithium Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The proposal is developed for analysis help of the Phase IV of this challenge and is highly complementary to ongoing research at ORNL funded by the DOE.”

“What excites me about Rose City Robotics is their expertise in technology and automation, so now they’re bringing that to the recycling space and I think that’s going to be beneficial not only to Cirba Solutions but to the industry as a whole.”

“Higher Wire has processed nearly 2MWh of batteries in 2024, with the majority viable for second life use. Despite low material costs, labor accounts for the second-highest cost of deploying second life batteries and is the bottleneck to scalability. We believe that the Rose City Robotics team can help Higher Wire reduce operating costs, improve throughput and improve safety by automating our disassembly and analysis processes.”

“Rose City Robotics’ innovative approach of using neural networks for motion planning to overcome the challenges of EV battery disassembly combines many of these concepts in a very interesting application.”

“Polaris is excited to assist Rose City Robotics in automating processes associated with recycling lithium ion cells that are ready for disposal.”