Germany’s NEURA Robotics has begun taking preorders for its flagship industrial humanoid robot and its compact sibling.
The Metzingen-based startup says it will begin shipping its full-scale 4NE1 Gen 3.5 and the 4NE1 Mini by the end of 2026. Each of the robots require a deposit of €100 ($117 USD). The move makes NEURA one of the first Western robotics firms to offer its humanoids for sale directly online.
NEURA’s flagship 4NE1 humanoid’s pricing starts at €98,000 ($114,600 USD). Standing 1.8 m (5 feet 11 inches) and weighing 80 kg (176 lbs), the industrial humanoid is engineered to navigate unstructured environments with what NEURA calls humanlike motion and advanced sensory intelligence. It was designed in collaboration with Studio F.A. Porsche.
According to NEURA, the 4NE1 Gen 3.5 walks at a pace up to 5 km/h (3.1 mph) and offers a payload capacity of up to 100 kg (220 lbs). Its perceives its surroundings in 360 degrees with its advanced sensor suite with reinforcement learning and computer vision for dynamic task adaptation. It communicates through speech and gestures and integrates NEURA’s human-sensing tech for safe collaboration with people. The Gen 3.5 platform is powered by an NVIDIA Thor T5000 processor.
NEURA’s smaller humanoid, the 4NE1 Mini, starts at €19,999 ($23,400 USD). The startup says the compact robot has the same cognitive abilities as its flagship in a form factor that’s more affordable and accessible for research, education, prototyping, and small office tasks. It retains the core AI, perception, and interaction capabilities of its larger sibling.
According to its datasheet, the 4NE1 Mini stands 132 cm (4 feet 4 inches) and weighs 36 kg (79 lbs). It moves at speeds of up to 4.6 km/h (2.9 mph) and handles a payload of up to 3 kg (6.6 lbs). Its base platform boasts 25 degrees of freedom (DoF). Optional dexterous end effectors add up to 12 DoF per hand. Its active battery life is reported as 2.5 hours per charge. The pricing is about what it’d cost to import a Unitree G1 from China.
Both robots have open interfaces for customizations. Developers can connect directly to through WiFi or Ethernet and program them using popular frameworks like ROS 2, Python, and C++.
NEURA Robotics is aggressively pushing to be Europe’s top humanoid robot maker, though it has stiffening competition from firms like Germany’s Agile Robots and Italy’s Generative Bionics. German entrepreneur David Reger launched the company as Han’s Robot in Shenzhen in 2017 and later moved operations to Deutschland and rebranded as NEURA Robotics. In late 2025, NEURA reestablished a presence in China with its new facility in Hangzhou. The so-called NEURA Hub will serve as a training center for the startup’s diverse lineup of AI-powered robots.