# Neura Robotics — Cognitive humanoid and industrial robots.

Cognitive robotics company building intelligent humanoid and collaborative robots that combine sensing, perception, and AI to work safely alongside humans.

Founded

2019

Headquarters

Metzingen, Germany

Category

Robotics, Hardware, Applied AI

Legal name

NEURA Robotics GmbH

## Highlights

Notable milestones from Neura Robotics’s journey — funding rounds, launches, and other moments worth knowing.

Funding - Mar 2026

### Reportedly raising €1B with Tether at a ~€4B valuation

Bloomberg reported Neura was raising about €1 billion in a round backed by stablecoin giant Tether, valuing it near €4 billion — capital aimed at moving the 4NE-1 from R&D into large-scale industrialization, and making it Europe's best-funded humanoid bet.

Round

Series C

Raised

$1.1B

Valuation

$4.3B

Led by

Tether

[Source](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/neura-robotics-raising-1-billion-in-round-backed-by-tether)

Partnership - Jan 2026

### Bosch signs on to bring humanoids to the production line

A strategic partnership with Bosch — joining names like Porsche, Schaeffler and Nvidia — lent Neura the kind of industrial engineering credibility few humanoid startups can claim.

[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neura_Robotics)

Partnership - Jun 2025

### White-label deals put Neura's tech inside Kawasaki, Omron and Delta

Rather than only sell its own robots, Neura licensed its cognitive platform to established industrial names, while a pilot with SAP wired the 4NE-1 into warehouse systems for autonomous picking — turning the thesis into real deployments.

[Source](https://www.therobotreport.com/neura-robotics-ceo-discusses-funding-humanoid-robots-competition/)

Funding - Jan 2025

### €120M Series B — backed by an order book reportedly near €1B

Lingotto led the round with Volvo Cars Tech Fund, HV Capital and Vsquared joining. Neura framed it on a year of 10x revenue growth, a doubling to 300+ staff, and an order book it put around €1 billion — unusual traction for a humanoid maker.

Round

Series B

Raised

$123M

Led by

Lingotto Investment Management, HV Capital, Volvo Cars Tech Fund

[Source](https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-secures-euro-120-million-series-b/)

Launch - Jul 2024

### 4NE-1, a humanoid aimed at the factory floor

Unveiled at automatica, the 1.8m, 80kg 4NE-1 carries up to 15kg and leans on Neura's cognitive stack to handle real industrial tasks — its pitch being a humanoid affordable enough to actually deploy at scale.

**The 4NE-1 humanoid — Neura's bid to put a cognitive robot on the factory floor.**

[Source](https://www.therobotreport.com/neura-robotics-raises-123m-to-continue-developing-cognitive-humanoid-robots/)

Partnership - Mar 2024

### Picked for Nvidia's humanoid developer program

Neura joined Nvidia's humanoid robot developer program alongside Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics — rare validation that put a European name on the short list of serious humanoid builders.

[Source](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/foundation-model-isaac-robotics-platform)

Funding - Jul 2023

### $55M from an all-European consortium

An entirely European investor group backed the cognitive-robotics thesis, funding the jump from collaborative arms toward a full humanoid.

Round

Series A

Raised

$55M

Launch - Nov 2020

### Out of stealth with MAiRA, billed as the first cognitive cobot

Neura emerged publicly with MAiRA — a collaborative arm with vision, touch and voice built in, pitched as the first market-ready robot that could perceive its surroundings instead of needing safety cages and fixed scripts.

**MAiRA arms on a line — perception built into the robot, no safety cage required.**

[Source](https://neura-robotics.com/company/)

Team - Mar 2019

### David Reger founds Neura on a bet the rest of the industry doubted

Reger set out to build robots that sense, perceive and reason rather than blindly repeat programmed motions — coining the term "cognitive robotics" for a category most of the industry didn't yet believe in.

**Founder and CEO David Reger, who coined the term "cognitive robotics".**

[Source](https://neura-robotics.com/company/)