REInvest Robotics · Odense, Denmark

Decades of robotics experience. Put to work.

We help companies solve robotics and automation challenges, give hardware teams a place to build, and invest alongside the people shaping what comes next.

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Robotics & Automation

I have a robotics or automation challenge

Access experienced robotics operators to help assess, develop, commercialise or strategically deploy robotics. We have made these decisions ourselves, in our own companies and on other people's boards.

  • Where automation actually creates value
  • Technical and commercial feasibility
  • Prototype to product, and product to business
  • Board work, sparring and due diligence

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REInvest RoboHouse

I need a place to build

Private office, workshop and hardware facilities in the Odense robotics ecosystem. Move in, plug in and get back to building.

  • Private, lockable offices for real teams
  • Workshop, soldering station, epoxy lab
  • Internet, utilities and lunch scheme included

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Investments

I want to invest in robotics

Explore the portfolio, our operator perspective on the sector, and the opportunity to discuss co-investment with people who work inside the Odense cluster.

  • A portfolio spanning agriculture, production, subsea and recycling
  • Board-level involvement, not passive cheques
  • An operator's read on robotics opportunities

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Track record

We have built this before

Robotics decisions are expensive to get wrong. These are the reasons companies, founders and investors put one in front of us.

2005 Universal Robots co-founded by Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, later its CTO. Acquired by Teradyne in 2015.
2 Odense robotics companies acquired by Teradyne in our founders' history: Universal Robots, co-founded, and MiR, backed as an investor.
7 Robotics companies in the current REInvest portfolio, from subsea inspection to autonomous farming and waste sorting.
158 Robotics, drone and automation companies in the Odense cluster around us, employing some 8,400 people.

Universal Robots was co-founded by Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard in 2005, long before REInvest Robotics was founded in 2019. MiR was an investment, not a founding. We keep that distinction because the difference matters to anyone deciding whether to trust us.

Robotics & Automation

Robotics expertise for real-world decisions

Whether you are exploring automation, assessing a robotics opportunity, developing a product or trying to commercialise technology you already have, we bring practical experience from the technology, business and market sides of robotics.

Close-up of a robot joint: a large polished output flange with a bolt circle
Close-up of a green encoder board mounted on the end of a motor, with an orange cable leaving the housing
Close-up of a two-finger parallel gripper with machined jaws, seen head on
Close-up of a splined output shaft protruding from a machined bearing housing

Where should we automate?

Finding the places in a production or service operation where robotics creates real operational and commercial value, and the places where it does not.

Is this technically and commercially viable?

An independent read on a robotics concept, technology or opportunity: maturity, hidden integration work, market readiness and the economics underneath.

How do we turn an idea into a real solution?

The hard path from prototype to a product that can be manufactured, certified, shipped, installed and serviced without breaking the company.

How do we build a business around robotics?

Product-market fit, first customer segment, pricing, business model and the route to market: direct, distributors, integrators or robot-as-a-service.

How should robotics fit our longer-term strategy?

Automation roadmaps, Industry 5.0, human-machine collaboration and what all of it means for the organisation, not just the production line.

We need experienced robotics people around the table

Board work, governance, technical and commercial sparring, due diligence and decision support when an important call has to be made.

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You do not need to know which of these you need. Describing the problem is enough to start.

Our point of view

Robots are tools. The point is what people do with them.

Automation built purely to remove labour competes away its own advantage. Everyone can buy the same robots, so everyone reaches the same cost base, and the saving ends up in the customer's pocket rather than the margin.

Our founder Esben Østergaard was an early advocate of Industry 5.0 and its human-centred approach to manufacturing: robots take the dull, dirty and dangerous work, and the people who know the product best get their judgement, creativity and craft back. That is where value gets created rather than merely defended.

It is also the test we apply to our own work. If an automation project only makes a headcount smaller, we will say so.

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Esben Østergaard receiving the Engelberger Robotics Award

Portfolio

What we are invested in

From underwater inspection to autonomous farming and waste sorting. Most of these companies are neighbours of ours in Denmark, and we hold board positions across several of them.

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Universal Robots, co-founded by Esben Østergaard, and MiR, which he backed as an investor, were both acquired by Teradyne.

REInvest RoboHouse at Landbrugsvej 6 seen from the air, with Odense S and the forest beyond Landbrugsvej 6, Odense S

REInvest RoboHouse · Odense S

A house for people who build robots

RoboHouse is our own building at Landbrugsvej 6, home to the REInvest team and to robotics and hardware teams who would rather build than administrate.

Private offices with internet and utilities included, meeting rooms you can actually book, a shared lunch scheme, and a workshop, soldering station and epoxy lab down the hall. Around 1,000 m² of offices and another 1,000 m² of factory floor across two buildings, minutes from SDU, Forskerparken and the motorway.

Desk space starts at DKK 2,000 a month, and private offices are priced by size.

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