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NEURA Robotics

NEURA Robotics is a German cognitive robotics company developing humanoid and Collaborative robots with AI-powered perception.

Founded
2019
HQ
Metzingen, Germany
Status
Private

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 VERIFIED
$7B (reported, approximate)as of Jun 2026

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Investorssee investors →

Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Tether, alongside European investors

Product Focus

Cognitive humanoid robots and physical AI platform

Products

4NE-1 humanoid, MAiRA cobot, MIPA mobile manipulator

Technology

Cognitive robotics, AI perception, collaborative operation

Series C funding status (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Neura told Forbes most of the up to $1.4B Series C has been transferred, with a smaller portion still tied to performance milestones.

Founder stake (reported, Forbes, Oct 2026)

David Reger owns about 20% of Neura, a stake Forbes values at nearly $1.5B based on the roughly $7B round valuation.

4NE1 Gen 4 launch (company-stated, Oct 2026)

New humanoid generation unveiled Oct 22, 2026: 20% lighter, textile outer skin, new hands and limb-level reflexes, runs Neuron AI. Being prepared for series production.

Data & sources

Press releases

4

News coverage

5

Web sources

10

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Partnerships

Every company NEURA Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

7 total5 operating2 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Amazon2× joint12 total
  2. 2Bosch1× joint
  3. 3Dassault Systemes1× joint
  4. 4Qualcomm1× joint
  5. 5Schaeffler1× joint
  6. 6TU Munich Robotics1× joint1 total

Most recent

  1. with TU Munich Roboticsoperating
  2. with Amazonjust announced
  3. with Schaeffleroperating
  4. with Dassault Systemesoperating
  5. with Amazonoperating

NEURA Robotics on the deployment map

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3 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Oct 2026. Explore where NEURA Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.

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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.

Claim Integrity: 100% (1 of 1 resolved claims verified; 3 tracked)
  • 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.

Who are the leading humanoid robot makers?
By active commercial deployment activity in 2026, the leading humanoid robot makers are Tesla (Optimus, factory pilots), Figure AI (02, BMW pilot), Agility Robotics (Digit, warehouse operators), Apptronik (Apollo, Mercedes-Benz pilot), 1X Technologies (Neo, consumer pre-launch), Boston Dynamics (Atlas, R&D), and Unitree Robotics (G1/H-series, research). A fast-growing Chinese cohort (UBTech, Xiaomi, XPeng, Fourier, EngineAI, and others) is shipping platforms at increasingly competitive price points.Read the full explainer →
What is PAL Robotics and the TALOS humanoid?
PAL Robotics is a Spanish humanoid robotics company headquartered in Barcelona, founded in 2004 with extensive European research-consortium history. The TALOS is the company's full-size adult bipedal humanoid platform, positioned for research-institution deployment rather than consumer or scaled-enterprise commercial use. PAL extends DEPLOY's humanoid manufacturer cohort to European context, representing a distinct geographic-and-strategic position from the American, Chinese, and Canadian cohort members.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (4)

Founders (2)

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Former / Previously (1)

Safety record

1 incident on record (1 minor). Most recent: Aug 2026.

minor
1

Most recent: Aug 2026

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Incidents affecting NEURA Robotics (1)

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Operator customers (1)

Brains developed (1)

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%

humanoid(90)

68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%

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