U.K. startup Q5D will explore using robots to automate electronic wiring steps during the manufacturing of electronic products.

Announcing its participation in a $2.7 million seed round led by Chrysalix Venture Capital, Q5D hopes to develop robot technology to automate the process of manufacturing wiring harnesses for electronic products.

Such wiring processes are currently done manually and tend to be tedious. Yet, due to their complexity, laying wire inside electronic products autonomously has so-far evaded manufacturers.

Source: Q5D

Q5D suggests that using funds from the $2.7 million seed round to develop technology for automating this step could potentially speed up manufacturing.

“This is a time of great change — the rapid electrification of our transport systems and the increasing function of everything from washing machines to mobile phones means that wiring is becoming more complex and labor intensive,” said Steve Bennington, co-founder of Q5D. “The way the world has made wiring for the last 80 years has to change.”