Sébastien Willems, Co-founder & CEO, Antfarm | Slush 2025
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Waste-sorting robot company demonstrates a TRL 4 alpha prototype built for $1,500 and claims a $10 per ton target down from $120 today, aiming to replace expensive conveyor-and-machine plants with swarms of four-armed robots that pick ~12 objects per minute. Current RGB vision hits ~20% of recoverable material, beta costs $5K and projects $980 revenue per unit per month, raising $4M seed in Q2 to deploy 100 robots, $3M ARR and reach production by 2027.
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