Hyperion Robotics raises €6.4m to bring AI-powered manufacturing to European infrastructure
As Europe confronts a decades-defining infrastructure renewal cycle, Espoo-based Hyperion Robotics has secured €6.4 million in new funding to expand its factory-based, robot-driven approach to building — promising faster, cheaper and lower-carbon alternatives to traditional construction.
Text by Martti Asikainen, 7.7.2026 | Photo by Hyperion Robotics / George
Hyperion Robotics, a physical AI company based in Espoo, Finland, has secured €6.4 million in new funding to expand its network of robotic “microfactories” across Europe, the company announced this week.
The round was jointly led by venture firm Course Corrected and the European Innovation Council Fund, with additional backing from RE Ventures, part of the Romande Energie Group, alongside existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures and PC Rettig Impact & Co.
The investment brings Hyperion’s total funding to roughly €17.4 million as the company moves from building projects one at a time to manufacturing components at industrial scale.
From site to factory
Founded in 2020 by Fernando De los Rios, Ashish Mohite and Henry Unterreiner, Hyperion makes low-carbon concrete foundations using large-scale 3D printing and robotics housed in factories built close to construction sites, rather than relying on traditional on-site building methods.
The company says this approach can cut material use by up to 75%, shorten project timelines by as much as three times, reduce costs by up to half, and lower embodied carbon emissions by up to 70% compared with conventional construction.
CEO De los Rios said the new funding would let the company move from small-scale projects to full production, adding that Europe doesn’t have the time, budget or labour for construction to keep working the way it has, and that the company sees its technology as central to closing that gap.
Rebuilding ageing infrastructure
Hyperion argues that Europe is entering its biggest infrastructure renewal cycle in decades, as ageing post-war power grids, water networks and industrial facilities require major reinvestment just as demand grows for new data centres, energy capacity and carbon capture facilities.
The company positions its model as turning infrastructure into a manufactured product rather than a bespoke construction job, an approach it says addresses labour shortages, tight budgets and pressure to decarbonise all at once. At the heart of the business is Forge, a software platform that links design, structural engineering, regulatory compliance, robotics and factory operations into one system.
Hyperion’s existing clients include big and well-known companies like National Grid, Costain, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Anglian Water and United Utilities.
First UK factory to open near Scunthorpe
The funding will support the launch of Hyperion’s first UK site, named Forge I, in Flixborough near Scunthorpe, developed in partnership with mining group LKAB.
The facility is intended to produce infrastructure components for the energy, utilities, water, data centre and carbon capture sectors. Money raised will also go towards further development of the Forge platform and the company’s wider expansion into European infrastructure markets.
Katja Bergman, Managing Partner at Course Corrected, said the firm believes Hyperion is setting a new standard for the construction sector, comparing its potential impact to the transformation robotics and automation brought to manufacturing in an earlier generation.
