Tether Teaches Robots to Count Their Coins: $1.4B NEURA Round Puts Wallets on Wheels 🤖

Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT, announced Wednesday it led a financing round of up to $1.4 billion into NEURA Robotics, a German humanoid robotics firm, in one of the largest private investment rounds ever recorded in the physical AI and humanoid robot sectors. NEURA Robotics, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Metzingen, Germany, develops humanoids, precision robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and service robots designed for environments where humans and machines work side by side.

Alongside Tether, the round included Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm Technologies, Bosch, imec.xpand, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon, and InterAlpen Partners. "The future of AI will not only live on screens," said NEURA Robotics founder and CEO David Reger, in a statement. "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."

Beyond capital, Tether will deploy two of its core technologies into NEURA's ecosystem. The company's open-source wallet development kit (WDK) will embed self-custodial wallet functionality directly into robotic platforms, allowing machines to receive payment for completed tasks and execute transactions within predefined operational parameters. Tether will also integrate its QVAC edge AI runtime into NEURA's Neuraverse software platform, enabling AI models to execute locally on a device rather than relying on remote cloud infrastructure.

"As robotics moves beyond scripted automation and into true autonomy, the infrastructure behind it must evolve as well," said Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, in a statement. "Autonomous machines need the ability to process information locally, make decisions, and transact without relying on centralized intermediaries." The terms of the financing and the post-money valuation were not disclosed.