NEURA Robotics, a Metzingen-based cognitive robotics startup and the creator of the Neuraverse, has announced a Series C funding round of up to €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to build the world’s leading Physical AI platform.
The financing was secured by Tether, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Amazon, NVIDIA, imec.xpand, Bosch, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon, InterAlpen Partners and others. Last year, in January, the company announced its €120 million Series B funding round led by Lingotto Investment Management,
“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,” said David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics.
Founded in 2019 by David Reger, NEURA Robotics is a robotics and physical AI company building the technologies that enable intelligent machines to learn, adapt and work alongside humans in the real world. The company develops cognitive robots that can see, hear, feel and learn, as well as the software, AI and data infrastructure required to deploy them at scale.
The company is building a new category of AI infrastructure where cognitive robots continuously learn, collaborate and operate across real-world environments through a shared intelligence ecosystem called the Neuraverse.
Unlike traditional robotics companies focused on isolated machines or narrow industrial automation, the company states that it combines robotics, AI, sensors, edge compute and large-scale learning infrastructure into one unified platform architecture designed for global deployment.
The company believes that as AI transitions from digital systems into the physical world, the next major competitive advantage will come from combining intelligence with real-world interaction, sensing and scalable deployment infrastructure. “In the future, people will not only ask what AI can say. They will ask what AI can physically do,” added Reger.
To support this transition, NEURA is creating one of the world’s first open Physical AI ecosystems, known as the Neuraverse, where robots constantly share skills, capabilities, and real-world learning across various deployments.
The company is also expanding its global network of NEURA Gyms, specialised large-scale training environments combining real-world sensor interaction, simulation and multimodal learning pipelines to create one of the largest real-world robotics data infrastructures globally.
“Many believed globally relevant AI infrastructure companies could only emerge from Silicon Valley. We believe the next generation of AI leaders can emerge anywhere in the world where there is enough vision, engineering talent and execution speed. With this financing, NEURA is firmly among the global leaders in the robotics race, alongside the best in the US and China. At the end, this is not only about robotics. It is about building technologies the world will depend on,” Reger noted.
NEURA is also shaping decentralised AI architectures, edge intelligence and machine-native economic systems in collaboration with strategic infrastructure partners. The company believes that trusted, open and interoperable robotics ecosystems will become increasingly important as AI systems move into factories, logistics centres, healthcare environments and homes.
Nicola Beer, Vice President of European Investment Bank, said, “By backing NEURA Robotics, the European Investment Bank is putting serious European firepower behind the next wave of physical AI and cognitive robotics. Through TechEU Europe’s most innovative mid-caps can access patient capital they need to turn cutting-edge research into globally competitive products and skilled jobs here in Europe. From safer factories and smarter logistics to entirely new services, NEURA’s open Neuraverse platform will help thousands of robots learn from each other in real time – accelerating innovation, strengthening Europe’s technological autonomy and turning AI into tangible benefits for workers and businesses.”
With this capital, the company plans to accelerate the global deployment of cognitive robots and humanoids, expand the Neuraverse platform, roll out NEURA Gyms, scale manufacturing and deployment infrastructure, and develop next-generation Physical AI systems.
The company is also ramping up manufacturing and aims to produce several million robots by 2030. It intends to bring its humanoid 4NE1 to industrial clients at scale, starting with the sectors that need it most. Additionally, it is growing its presence from Europe to the US, China, and Japan.
NEURA collaborates strategically with top industrial and AI companies such as Bosch, Schaeffler, Kawasaki, Delta Electronics, Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon, and NVIDIA. It reports that its existing orderbook and strategic deployment pipeline exceed €864.8 million ($1 billion).
Source: EU-Startups
