Neura Robotics Secures Up To $1.4B For Humanoid Robots

Humanoid robot manufacturer Neura Robotics said on June 10 that it had secured up to $1.4 billion in financing at a $7 billion valuation. The round was led by stablecoin company Tether, with participation from strategic investors including Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler, and the European Investment Bank. It’s the biggest fundraising round ever for a full-stack robotics startup, and the biggest investment in humanoid robots made in Europe to date.

The funding is conditional; Neura will receive further installments based on certain performance targets, meaning the total investment could be less than $1.4 billion. However, the company claims to have a backlog of orders worth approximately €1 billion, and says it aims to manufacture five million robots by 2030. These are bold claims for an industry that’s long been accused of promising too much and delivering too little.

1Why so much money, so fast

So far in 2026, robotics startups have raised a total of $55.8 billion, according to Dealroom — almost twice the previous record. Investors are betting that advances in large language models (LLMs) will enable machines to understand our instructions and navigate the physical world, just as they did for chatbots. Nvidia makes the GPUs that power LLM training and inference, Amazon has a fleet of warehouses that need to be automated, and Qualcomm wants its chips installed in robots, so it makes sense that all three are involved.

Most of us still see humanoid robots as futuristic gimmicks rather than practical household appliances. This investment suggests that big industrial players believe that the next wave of AI applications will be in physical spaces like warehouses and factories (and perhaps care homes) rather than on screens. And that means that robots won’t just plug a hole in the workforce — they’ll transform it. A $7 billion valuation implies that this will happen on a massive scale.

Take all of this with a pinch of salt. Humanoid robotics valuations have outstripped actual sales, and “up to” funding rounds with milestone-based releases are usually a sign that investors are being cautious. Five million robots by 2030 sounds like a stretch goal.