Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round
Tether led a financing round of up to $1.4 billion in NEURA Robotics, a German humanoid robotics company, in one of the largest private funding deals in physical AI and humanoid robotics. NEURA, founded in 2019 and based in Metzingen, develops humanoids, robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and service robots for human-machine environments. Investors also included Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch, the European Investment Bank, and others. Beyond capital, Tether plans to integrate its open-source wallet development kit and QVAC edge AI runtime into NEURA’s platform. The wallet tools would let robots hold self-custody wallets, receive payments, and complete transactions within set limits. QVAC would enable on-device AI processing instead of relying on cloud infrastructure, improving speed, resilience, and autonomy. Both companies frame the deal as infrastructure for machines that can work, decide, and transact independently.
