Neura Robotics

Neura Robotics is a German high-tech company founded in 2019 by David Reger in Metzingen, near Stuttgart. It designs and manufactures what it calls cognitive robots — machines that combine on-board artificial intelligence with rich sensing so they can perceive their surroundings, learn new tasks, and work safely alongside people, rather than repeating fixed, pre-programmed motions behind a safety cage. Neura designs much of its hardware and software in-house, which it argues is what lets it move quickly across very different robot form factors.

The company's lineup centers on three products. The 4NE-1 — pronounced "for anyone" — is a humanoid robot built for series production, with a wheeled variant for added efficiency and range. MiPA, short for My Intelligent Personal Assistant, is a humanoid assistant aimed at both industrial settings and everyday personal help. And the Neuraverse is Neura's app-store-style ecosystem, where robots gain new skills the way a smartphone installs apps — a continuously learning network connecting users, developers, and businesses.

In 2026 Neura raised one of the largest funding rounds in robotics history — a Series C that grew to as much as $1.4 billion as strategic investors including Amazon, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler, the European Investment Bank, and Tether joined, valuing the company in the multi-billion-dollar range. The backing reflects a broader race to put humanoid and cognitive robots onto factory floors and into warehouses, and it positions Neura as Europe's best-funded humanoid maker, with a reported order backlog already exceeding $1 billion ahead of its first series deliveries.