Adaptronics, a Bologna-based DeepTech startup specialising in electro-adhesive grippers for robotic programs with industrial automation and house purposes, at the moment introduced the closing of a €3.15 million spherical.

The spherical was led by European enterprise capital fund, 360 Capital, alongside Galaxia, the Expertise Switch Hub for Aerospace, created by CDP Enterprise Capital’s Tech Switch fund along with Obloo Ventures, which had already invested within the pre-Seed spherical in 2023.

“This spherical marks a major milestone for Adaptronics,” explains Lorenzo Agostini, CEO of Adaptronics. “It exhibits traders’ belief in our imaginative and prescient of a DeepTech firm creating an enabling expertise that spans a number of industries. It can assist us velocity​ up our technological innovation path, increase our services with a pilot plant, and strengthen the worldwide attain of our merchandise.”

This funding million spherical for Adaptronics is healthier understood when positioned inside the  broader 2025 context of European funding into robotics and automation ventures.

In Germany, assemblean secured €1.8 million to advance its manufacturing-automation platform, whereas Unchained Robotics raised €8.5 million to scale its automation-matching system for producers. Additionally from Germany, Sereact obtained €25 million to develop superior robotics {hardware} and increase internationally.

Elsewhere in Europe, Norway’s Saga Robotics raised €9.5 million to develop its fleet of autonomous farm robots, and Switzerland’s mimic secured €13.8 million to deploy dexterous robotic manipulation programs.

In opposition to this backdrop, Adaptronics’ €3.15 million funding represents a notable Italian contribution to Europe’s DeepTech automation panorama. Its electro-adhesive gripping expertise situates it alongside continental friends advancing clever {hardware} and industrial automation.

With no different Italian automation startups reported by EU-Startups in 2025, Adaptronics stands out as a key nationwide instance of funding in next-generation robotics and space-applicable applied sciences.

“We’re thrilled to again Adaptronics and its distinctive staff on the intersection of superior digital supplies and automatic programs. We imagine Adaptronics’ electro-adhesive layer for object dealing with has the potential to redefine industrial automation requirements.

“Adaptronics breakthrough expertise, rooted in analysis excellence and constructed for industrial scalability, completely embodies 360 Capital’s imaginative and prescient to help DeepTech ventures reshaping Europe’s industrial panorama,” provides Alessandro Zaccaria, Companion at 360 Capital.

Adaptronics is a DeepTech startup based in 2022 as a spin-off of the College of Bologna by Lorenzo Agostini (CEO), Camilla Conti (COO) and Rocco Vertechy (R&D Lead). It develops adaptive mechatronic units for gripping objects of any form and materials, each on Earth and in house.

Its proprietary expertise, known as the Electro Energetic Adhesive Layer (EAAL), permits versatile and high-efficiency electrostatic gripping with built-in tactile sensing capabilities. The expertise is designed for purposes in robotics, industrial automation, agritech, and the house economic system.

The EAAL expertise permits robots and automatic machines to reportedly seize and transfer any object with excessive versatility (enabling a controllable adhesive gripping power on objects of any form, dimension, materials and weight as much as a number of kilograms), a lot greater velocity (activation and launch in lower than 10 ms) and “unprecedented” vitality effectivity (as much as 1000 occasions extra environment friendly than commonplace programs).

Based mostly on electrostatic forces and built-in tactile suggestions, EAAL expertise detects contact and proximity to things, making certain exact and delicate manipulation, and eliminating the necessity for pneumatic, mechanical or magnetic programs.

Moreover, with solely two parts within the product (an digital management module and a replaceable gripping system), operational and upkeep prices are strongly diminished.

On the house entrance, in 2024 Adaptronics accomplished the incubation program of ESA BIC Turin, managed by I3P, the Revolutionary Firms Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the European Area Company (ESA), the Italian Area Company (ASI), Politecnico di Torino, and the LINKS Basis.

The €3.15 million raised will help Adaptronics’ development by strengthening its manufacturing capacities, accelerating European market growth, and consolidating its organisational construction.

“We’re more than happy to have believed in Adaptronics from the very starting: its proprietary EAAL expertise represents a real paradigm shift in robotic manipulation, opening up concrete new software eventualities in more and more essential sectors, from industrial automation to house. The staff has demonstrated a transparent imaginative and prescient, deep experience, and wonderful execution capabilities, and we imagine it has the potential to make Adaptronics a continental chief within the discipline,” outlined Claudia Pingue, Head of the Tech Switch Fund at CDP Enterprise Capital.

Adaptronics says their expertise addresses vital wants throughout a number of sectors: from industrial automation and packaging, the place velocity and reliability is prime, to house operations, the place the expertise can be utilized for particles elimination or satellite tv for pc upkeep.