NEURA Robotics

NEURA Robotics is a German high-tech company founded in 2019 that develops cognitive robots powered by artificial intelligence. Its stated aim is to build machines that can work alongside people, learn from them and be safely integrated into industry, work and everyday life. The company employs more than 1,400 international experts, having grown from a handful of people in a few years, and is based in Metzingen, near Stuttgart.

Its product range includes LARA and MAiRA, robotic assistants designed to take over repetitive and dangerous tasks and to be programmed and operated through modular training programmes. NEURA Academy provides those training programmes for programming and running the company's robots. NEURA Gym is described as the first large-scale physical AI gym, in which hundreds of robots collect data in simulation and in the real world.

Technical work at the company spans cognitive robotics, artificial intelligence and physical AI, human-robot collaboration, robot learning, simulation, and robot training and programming. Its tools are intended to be scalable, user-friendly, modular and reliable. The company targets industrial and manufacturing settings as well as consumer applications, with an emphasis on safety and on freeing people to concentrate on work that matters most.