German cognitive robotics firm NEURA Robotics has closed the largest Series C ever raised by a full-stack robotics company, securing up to $1.4 billion to scale its Physical AI platform globally.
The Metzingen-based company, founded in 2019, has received funding from Tether, Amazon, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Technologies, Bosch, Schaeffler Group, the European Investment Bank, imec.xpand, Lingotto Horizon, and InterAlpen Partners among the backers in the round. The funding marks a vote of confidence in the company’s bet that the next frontier of AI will be physical, not digital.
NEURA builds cognitive robots capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in real-world environments, alongside the AI software and data infrastructure needed to deploy them at scale. Its product portfolio spans humanoid and industrial robots, with existing orders and deployment commitments exceeding $1 billion.
Central to its strategy is the Neuraverse, an open ecosystem where robots across deployments share skills, sensor data, and real-world learning in real time. The company is also rolling out NEURA Gyms, large-scale physical training environments designed to generate the kind of embodied data that digital simulation alone cannot replicate.
The capital will fund serial production toward a target of multi-million robots by 2030, alongside global expansion of both the Neuraverse platform and the Gym network.
Founder and CEO David Reger frames the raise as proof that globally relevant AI infrastructure companies can emerge outside Silicon Valley. “The future of AI will not only live on screens. It will move, interact, learn and work beside us in the real world. We believe Physical AI and cognitive robotics will become one of the largest technology shifts of the coming decades, transforming industries ranging from manufacturing and logistics to healthcare, services and household robotics,” he said in a statement.
“With this financing, NEURA is firmly among the global leaders in the robotics race, alongside the best in the US and China,” he added.
Strategic partners are integrating their own stacks into the platform. Qualcomm brings edge AI compute, Amazon contributes cloud infrastructure through Bedrock and SageMaker, and Bosch adds sensor and actuator technology. Tether, through its QVAC and WDK products, is building edge-first intelligence and machine-native financial infrastructure into the ecosystem.
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, added, “Autonomous machines need the ability to process information locally, make decisions, and transact without relying on centralised intermediaries. QVAC brings that edge-first intelligence to the platform while WDK handles the secure financial layer, together enabling machines to execute tasks, account for outcomes, and operate independently.”
NEURA also signals longer-term ambitions around decentralised AI architectures and autonomous machine economics, areas it intends to develop alongside infrastructure partners as robots move into factories, logistics centres, and homes.
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