\n\n## Scalable Automation Solutions in Battery Recycling\n\nAs electric vehicle batteries reach the end of their lifespan, increasing efficiency, safety, and scalability in recycling processes becomes crucial. Bosch Rexroth is presenting a modular and automated system concept to address these needs at IFAT 2026.\n\n### Increasing Battery Volume Challenges Recycling Capacity\n\nThe widespread adoption of electric vehicles leads to an exponential increase in the number of batteries. The volume of waste batteries is expected to increase tenfold in the next five years. Existing facilities, operating on a small scale with limited automation, are insufficient to meet this growing volume. Furthermore, the variety of different battery types complicates standard processing, increasing the need for flexible and automated systems.\n\n### Industrial Automation Plays a Key Role in Recycling\n\nBosch Rexroth adapts automation technologies used in manufacturing, such as drive and control systems, linear motion, assembly, and tightening technologies, to battery disaggregation and material recovery processes. By increasing automation in critical stages that require manual intervention, especially in operations like battery discharging and dismantling, it enhances occupational safety and process efficiency.\n\n### Technical Specifications\n\n
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- Modular Automation: Supported by linear motion systems, tightening tools, assembly technologies, and collaborative robots.\n
- Flexible Configuration: Manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic systems can be set up.\n
- Diagnostic Tools: Systems that determine a safe discharge process even for non-digital older batteries, based on battery type and condition.\n
- Discharge Systems: Mobile and stationary versions, applicable according to facility layout and processing volume.\n
- Pre-treatment Solutions: Supports recycling efficiency by improving material quality.\n
\n\n### Flexible and Safe Solutions for the User\n\nThe system's modular structure allows for gradual upgrades and expansions in existing facilities. This enables capacity increases without the need for a complete infrastructure overhaul. This solution not only enhances occupational safety but also contributes to digital supply chains integrated with production processes.\n\n### Introduction at IFAT 2026\n\nBosch Rexroth will introduce this scalable automation concept at IFAT 2026 in Munich. This system, which combines diagnostics, controlled battery discharge, and automatic dismantling processes, aims to increase capacity and ensure cost-effectiveness and safety in battery recycling facilities.
