CategoryHumanoids
Overview
NEURA Robotics is a German cognitive robotics company developing humanoid and Collaborative robots with AI-powered perception. Products include the 4NE-1 humanoid, MAiRA cognitive collaborative robot, and MIPA mobile manipulation assistant. Founded 2019, raised Series A and B funding. Headquartered in Mettmann, Germany.
Reality check
Orderbook and pipeline (company-claimed, Oct 2026)
A spokesperson told Forbes the orderbook exceeds $1.1B, about half tied to its cobot fleet, plus an $11B pipeline of signed agreements with varying levels of commitment.
Robots sold (company-claimed estimate, Oct 2026)
Reger estimates 5,000 to 8,000 machines sold since 2021, many under partner brands such as Kawasaki, Omron and Delta Electronics.
Neuron AI (company-claimed, Oct 2026)
Perception-language-action model combining 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state and language with memory. Runs across five NEURA robot embodiments; trained in-house in Metzingen.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- 1 incident on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries C post-money
Key facts
Investorssee investors →
Product Focus
Technology
Series C funding status (company-stated, Oct 2026)
Founder stake (reported, Forbes, Oct 2026)
4NE1 Gen 4 launch (company-stated, Oct 2026)
Data & sources
Press releases
4
News coverage
5
Web sources
10
19 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
MiPA
MiPA is NEURA Robotics' household companion robot, launched alongside the Neuraverse ecosystem. It brings NEURA's cognitive AI to a smaller, home-oriented form factor, sharing the Neuraverse platform with the 4NE-1 humanoid. Depth note: public product detail for MiPA is limited as of this pass relative to the 4NE-1. Shipping status, specifications, and pricing should be firmed at next pass against neura-robotics.com. Built with verified-vs-claimed framing; not padded.
Current platform
4NE-1
Cognitive humanoid robot from NEURA Robotics, designed for industrial and service applications. It is a humanoid robot designed for physical AI applications. Key specifications include Height: 180 cm, Payload: 100 kg, AI system: NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, Drive type: bipedal, Production target: late 2026.
Partnerships
Every company NEURA Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon2× joint12 total
- 2Bosch1× joint
- 3Dassault Systemes1× joint
- 4Qualcomm1× joint
- 5Schaeffler1× joint
- 6TU Munich Robotics1× joint1 total
Most recent
- NEURA Robotics x TUM (RoboGym Munich)2026-10-22with TU Munich Roboticsoperating
- with Amazonjust announced
- NEURA Robotics x Schaeffler Deployment2026-05-13with Schaeffleroperating
- NEURA Robotics x Dassault Systemes2026-04-23with Dassault Systemesoperating
- NEURA Robotics x AWS2026-04-21with Amazonoperating
NEURA Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Oct 2026. Explore where NEURA Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full NEURA Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by NEURA Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-02-11
“The future of AI will not only live on screens”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- OpenTimeline · claimed 2026-01-01 · deadline 2027-12-31
“Humanoid robots by end of next year”
NEURA Robotics has partnerships with Bosch and AWS but no confirmed commercial humanoid deployment as of July 2026. David Reger's "end of next year" is vague — if said in late 2025/early 2026, the implied deadline is end of 2027. No evidence of deployed humanoid robots performing autonomous work tasks. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaEVxDeFZv7/
- OpenTimeline · claimed 2026-01-01
“Hopefully funded + deployed robots by end of program”
The hedging language ("hopefully") is notably less confident than peers like Figure or Tesla. "End of program" is undefined. NEURA has technology partnerships but no confirmed commercial deployment of its 4NE-1 humanoid.
Disagree with a status? NEURA Robotics can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about NEURA Robotics, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
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Current leadership (4)
- David Reger Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Sugeeth Gopinathan Co-founder & VP, Project & Product Managementreported, not verified
- Bernd Heinrichs Chief Growth OfficerIR-verified
- Jens Fabrowsky Product Development & OperationsIR-verified
Founders (2)
- David Regercofounderfounded 2019-01-01
- Sugeeth Gopinathancofounderfounded 2019-01-01
Former / Previously (1)
- Melvin Schwarz Robotics Engineersecondary-verified
Safety record
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Incidents affecting NEURA Robotics (1)
- NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 humanoid collapsed on stage during Qualcomm keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei2026-08-01 · Malfunction
via 4NE-1 at Herzogenaurach, Germany
Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operator customers (1)
- NEURA Robotics3 deployments
Brains developed (1)
- Neuraverse Cognitive Stackos-layer · pilot
Recent coverage
NEURA Robotics in third-party press
Peers
234 peers across 2 segments. Every NEURA Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
humanoid(90)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIST Humanoid Research Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgiBotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agility Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (13)
Registry pages whose text names NEURA Robotics.
Companies (1)
AI systems (2)
Deployments (1)
Supplied by (2)
Compute / semiconductor
- NVIDIAvia 4NE-1NVIDIA Thor T5000 onboard compute + Isaac GR00T foundation model -- 4NE-1 Gen 3.5 runs NVIDIA Thor T5000 processor paired with Isaac GR00T and NEURA's proprietary AURA AI system; NVIDIA provides Isaac simulation and learning platforms (NEURA Gyms) and GR00T N1 model for advanced cognitionco-develops
Actuators & motors
- Schaeffler Groupvia 4NE-1Schaeffler humanoid actuators (up to 250 Nm continuous torque) -- jointly developed for the 4NE-1; high torque in continuous operation with compact and lightweight design for industrial-deployment loading; Schaeffler also serves as primary industrial deployment customer targeting mid-four-digit 4NE-1 deployments in global production network by 2035co-develops
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.5B
- Employees
- 1,400
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
7 total · 5 operating · 2 just announced
Every company NEURA Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- NEURA Robotics x TUM (RoboGym Munich)2026-10-22with TU Munich Roboticsoperating
- with Amazonjust announced
- NEURA Robotics x Schaeffler Deployment2026-05-13with Schaeffleroperating
- NEURA Robotics x Dassault Systemes2026-04-23with Dassault Systemesoperating
- NEURA Robotics x AWS2026-04-21with Amazonoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon2× joint12 total
- 2Bosch1× joint
- 3Dassault Systemes1× joint
- 4Qualcomm1× joint
- 5Schaeffler1× joint
- 6TU Munich Robotics1× joint1 total
All 7 partnerships
open in the atlas →- development2026-10-22operating
- NEURA Robotics x Schaeffler DeploymentwithSchaefflerdeployment2026-05-13operating
- NEURA Robotics x Dassault SystemeswithDassault Systemesdevelopment2026-04-23operating
- technology2026-04-21operating
- NEURA Robotics x BoschwithBoschtechnology2026-01-14operating
- technology2026-06-15announcedjust announced
Funding rounds (2)
NEURA Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $1.5B in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C2026-06-10
$1.4B(reported) · $7.0B post
Investors: NVentures (NVIDIA), Qualcomm Ventures, Robert Bosch GmbH, Tether (lead), Amazon, European Investment Bank
- Series B2025-01-15
$124M(reported)
Investors: Lingotto Investment Management (lead), BlueCrest Capital Management, Volvo Cars Tech Fund (strategic), InterAlpen Partners, Vsquared Ventures, HV Capital, Delta Electronics (strategic), C4 Ventures, L-Bank (State Bank of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Timeline
Every recorded move in NEURA Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: SICK AG
2026-08-23Supply: Safety sensors from SICK AG
New supplierNew supplier: Harmonic Drive
2026-08-23Supply: Joint reducers from Harmonic Drive
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: NVIDIA GR00T N1 for NEURA cognition from NVIDIA
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: NVIDIA Jetson from NVIDIA
PartnershipAmazon x NEURA Robotics Physical AI Deployment
2026-06-15Amazon partners with NEURA Robotics to scale physical AI deployment. Partnership to help scale robot training globally by combining resources.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-06-10Series C raising $1400000000
PartnershipNEURA Robotics x Schaeffler Deployment
2026-05-13NEURA Robotics (Humanoid brand) secured landmark deal with Schaeffler to deploy thousands of humanoid robots. First systems go live in Germany before end of 2026. Schaeffler also supplying actuators as preferred supplier.
PartnershipNEURA Robotics x Dassault Systemes
2026-04-23NEURA Robotics and Dassault Systemes partnered to scale physical AI through virtual twins and real-world learning, combining NEURA's robotics platform with Dassault's 3D simulation.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedOct 22, 2026
4NE-1 at LabCampus, Munich Airport, Germany
- Incident recordedAug 1, 2026
NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 humanoid collapsed on stage during Qualcomm keynote at Computex 2026...
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
NEURA Robotics MiPA service robot
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Neura Robotics 4NE-1 household humanoid
- Record createdMay 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (19)
- https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/04/humanoid-robot-maker-neura-robotics-reportedly-raising-1-2b-funding/ · 2026-03-04
- https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-secures-euro-120-million-series-b/
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250115046478/en/NEURA-Robotics-Secures-120-Million-in-Series-B-Funding-to-Propel-Cognitive-and-Humanoid-Robotics-Vision
- https://neura-robotics.com/strategic-collaboration-with-sap-and-nvidia/
- https://news.sap.com/2025/06/neura-robotics-sap-nvidia-future-of-physical-ai/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/neura-robotics-launches-latest-cognitive-robots-neuraverse-ecosystem/
- https://www.robotics247.com/article/automatica-2025-neura-robotics-unveils-3rd-generation-4ne1-humanoid
- https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/neura-robotics-reportedly-secures-1-billion-from-tether-to-scale-humanoid-vision
- https://techfundingnews.com/neura-robotics-1b-tether-humanoid/
- https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-launches-technological-revolution/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/neura-robotics-funding-ai-humanoid-robots.html · 2026-06-10
- https://neura-robotics.com/record-series-c/ · 2026-06-10
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2026/10/18/germanys-new-robot-billionaire-is-betting-big-on-humanoid-gyms/ · 2026-10-18
- https://x.com/Forbes/status/2111842244399612076 · 2026-10-18
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-10/tether-backs-german-robotics-startup-neura-in-1-4-billion-round · 2026-06-10
- https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-introduces-neuron-ai/ · 2026-10-14
- https://neura-robotics.com/neuron-ai/
- https://neura-robotics.com/tum-robogym-munich-4ne1-gen4-launch/ · 2026-10-22
- https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/unicorn-neura-robotics-reveals-new-robot-along-with-a-training-facility-for-european-robotics/ · 2026-10-22
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Methodology: Verified · 19 sources (4 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-22
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-22
Sources by quality tier
- 10
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 4
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 3
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for NEURA Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Samsung Electronics6 models
- AheadForm5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning NEURA Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Neura Robotics and TUM open €17 million RoboGym and unveil new humanoid
Neura Robotics and the Technical University of Munich have opened a €17 million robotics research and training center near Munich Airport, while unveiling the latest generation of…
TUM opens robotics and AI center at Munich Airport’s LabCampus
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has opened the TUM Convergence Center at LabCampus, the innovation hub at Munich Airport. The center brings together students, researchers…
NEURA Robotics and TUM Open RoboGym in Munich
NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened a robotics research and training center near Munich Airport, bringing together academic researchers and…
NEURA Robotics Unveils 4NE1 Gen 4 and Opens RoboGym with TUM
NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened the TUM RoboGym powered by NEURA at LabCampus near Munich Airport. Spanning more than 2,300 square meters,…
Neura Robotics Teams Up With Austria’s A.I. Start-Up NXAI
Neura Robotics and Sepp Hochreiter’s NXAI want to give robots a memory with xLSTM. An NXAI model is also set to come to the Neuraverse. Der Beitrag Neura Robotics Teams Up With…
Linzer KI-Startup NXAI verbündet sich mit deutschem Robotik-Unicorn Neura
NXAI rund um Sepp Hochreiter und Neura Robotics wollen Robotern mit xLSTM ein Gedächtnis verpassen. Zusätzlich soll ein NXAI-Modell im Neuraverse landen. Der Beitrag Linzer…
NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI
NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI A robot can see a connector entering a socket without knowing whether it has locked into place. It can recognise an…
Neura Robotics Unveils ‘Neuron AI’ Foundation Model for Physical AI
Insider Brief Neura Robotics has introduced Neuron AI, a foundation model designed to give robots a greater understanding of the physical world by combining vision, touch, sound,…
Neura Robotics launches multimodal AI model that gives robots perception and memory
Neura Robotics has launched Neuron AI, its multimodal foundation model for physical AI. Combining 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state and language with memory, Neuron AI enables…
NEURA Robotics Introduces Neuron AI Model for Multisensory Robot Control
German robotics company NEURA Robotics has introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model designed to combine sensory information, memory and physical action in robots.…
Neura Robotics brings physical AI to healthcare
Neura Robotics is entering healthcare. The company is bringing physical AI, and the cognitive robots built on it, to one of the most structurally strained sectors in modern…
NEURA Robotics Expands Into Healthcare With Autonomous Bed-Transport Robot
NEURA Robotics is expanding into healthcare and life sciences with a new business unit and an autonomous mobile robot designed to transport empty hospital beds and sterile goods.…
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- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Samsung Electronics6 models
- AheadForm5 models
Video
The German robotics start-up based in Metzingen, near Stuttgart, develops cognitive humanoid robots – in other words, machines that can perceive, learn and act independently. CEO David Reger explains what makes his compa
NVIDIA and NEURA team up to redefine the future of robotics As NVIDIA announced at ACM SIGGRAPH: NEURA Robotics is among the first joining the early access NVI
Hungry? 🤤 Let 4NE-1 whip up your next sandwich!🥖 4NE-1 is here to take care of hunger pangs so you can focus on what matters most. Our humanoid’s sandwich s
Robots will only become truly intelligent once they can learn from real-world interactions. Training on text, images or simulation alone is not enough. That's
We are building Europe’s largest research and training center for robotics in the scientific field. In partnership with Technische Universität München (TUM) and
Day 1 at CES in Las Vegas was all about premieres! For the first time, we revealed Gen 3.5 of our humanoid robot, 4NE1, developed in collaboration with Studio
National Robotics Week is a time to look at where innovation meets opportunity. For @NEURARobotics, that moment played out at CES 2026. It was a space to put
Germany's NEURA Robotics just stunned the robotics world, raising up to $1.4 BILLION in Series C funding — launching them straight into the global humanoid robo
I spent a week with the NEURA Robotics 4NE1 humanoid robot to see whether the future of humanoid AI is actually closer than people think. In this review, we bre
Heat Index
Category contender87/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
NEURA Robotics draws attention at the 94th percentile but verifies reality at the 62nd percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap +32.2, 21st widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Well-capitalized with $1.5B raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Nov 2, 2026
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