The €4 billion high-performance robotic drive market is limited by outdated gear technology, which relies on 60-year-old designs that suffer from inherent issues such as backlash, low stiffness, noise, and complex manufacturing processes. These limitations are hindering the performance and scalability of next-generation robotics like Humanoids.
The Archimedes Drive offers a groundbreaking, friction-based, teeth-free mechanism that eliminates backlash and provides high stiffness, ensuring smooth, accurate, and quiet operation with reduced wear. This compact, lightweight design also includes inherent overtorque protection.
Instead of traditional gear teeth, our patented system uses friction rollers supported by hollow cylinders, similar to those found in roller bearings, which are easy to manufacture at scale. This simple yet powerful design delivers ultra-high gear ratios and exceptional performance, enabling new possibilities for mechatronic applications with superior precision and efficiency.
The demand for safer work environments, solutions to labor shortages, and seamless human-robot collaboration is accelerating. Cage-free, multi-purpose robots, such as Humanoids, are needed, but outdated gear technology limits their potential. The Archimedes Drive offers the breakthrough needed to enable next-gen robots. With industries increasingly adopting robotics to address these challenges, the time to deliver this innovative technology is now.
The Archimedes Drive is already gaining significant attention from key industry players across verticals in the robotics industry. We have secured 5 commercial pilots and 6 LOIs, from players like Össur, Codian (owned by ABB), Autonox, Kongsberg, Apptronic, Agility Robotics, among others, with potential ARR over €16M by 2027. This early interest validates the need for a next-gen solution and reinforces our belief that our technology is positioned to capture a substantial share of the €4 billion high-performance robotic drive market.
Jack Schorsch, CEO of IMSystems and inventor of the Archimedes Drive, brings extensive expertise in robotics and human-machine interaction, with an ACE award from IEEE and the European Robotics Federation Entrepreneurship Award. Co-founders Rory Deen, Matthew Corvers, and Thibaud Verschoor, named in Forbes 30 Under 30, bring additional engineering excellence, with Thibaud having interned at SpaceX. CTO Alfons Schure has over 8 years of experience in traction drives and developed the most accurate traction drive controller to date. The team is further supported by 20 experts with complementary experience in automation, mechatronics, and robotics.
IMSystems is positioned to revolutionize the €4 billion robotic drive market with its patented Archimedes Drive technology. With the technology already validated with key industry players and strong market traction and interest from key industry players within the Humanoid industry, we are ready to scale production and accelerate growth.
We are raising €10M, with €4.5M already committed by the EIC, and €2.5M-5.5M available for new investors to join us in shaping the future of robotics.