Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round

Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDTannounced Wednesday that it had led a funding round of up to $1.4 billion to NEURA Robotics, a German humanoid robotics company. It is being billed as one of the largest private investment rounds ever in the physical AI and humanoid robot sector.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Metzingen, Germany, NEURA Robotics develops a broad portfolio of robotic systems, including humanoids, precision robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots and service robots designed for environments where people and machines work side by side.

Other investors in the round besides Tether include Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm Technologies, Bosch, imec.xpand, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon and InterAlpen Partners.

“The future of AI won’t just live on screens,” NEURA Robotics founder and CEO David Reger said in a statement. “It will move, communicate, learn and work alongside us in the real world. We believe physical AI and cognitive robotics will be one of the biggest technology shifts of the coming decades, transforming industries ranging from manufacturing and logistics to healthcare, services and home robotics.”

In addition to the capital commitment, Tether will deploy some of its core technologies into the NEURA ecosystem. This includes the open-source wallet development kit (WDK), which would embed self-custodial wallet functionality directly into robotic platforms, allowing machines to receive payments for completed tasks and execute transactions within predefined operational parameters, making financial settlement part of the workflow itself.

Tether will integrate it too QVAC edge AI runtime in NEURA’s Neuraverse software platform. QVAC allows AI models to run locally on a device instead of relying on remote cloud infrastructure, reducing latency, improving operational resilience, and limiting reliance on large centralized computing providers – a critical capability in industrial environments where uptime and precision are paramount.

“As robotics moves beyond scripted automation and toward true autonomy, the infrastructure behind it must evolve as well,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a statement. “Autonomous machines need the ability to process information locally, make decisions and execute transactions without relying on centralized intermediaries.”

“QVAC brings that edge-first intelligence to the platform, while WDK handles the secure financial layer, allowing machines to perform tasks together, account for results and operate independently,” he added. “NEURA Robotics shares that vision, and this investment reflects our confidence in what autonomous robotics can become.”