NEURA 4NE-1 Gen 3.5

What it's for

The NEURA 4NE-1 Gen 3.5 is a humanoid with which the German Neura Robotics of Metzingen wants to show that a robot in human form can be an industrial machine rather than a toy. It stands 180 cm and weighs 80 kg, and the maker claims a payload of a full 100 kg, a speed of 1.39 m/s and up to 8 hours of work thanks to swappable batteries. The studio Porsche Design is responsible for the look, the computing is built on NVIDIA hardware, and perception includes 360-degree vision and a sensor skin. The uses the maker names are material handling and in-plant logistics. In such tasks payload (a claimed 100 kg) and runtime on one set of batteries (up to 8 hours) count most, and those are the figures that stand out in this model's specification. Swappable forearms would let you change the working end depending on the task, and teleoperation mode lets an operator take over when the autonomy cannot cope. Caution is needed, though. The 100 kg payload is a claim by the maker and has not been independently verified; it may refer to the whole system, not a single arm. The model's status is pre-order: reservations are taken for a refundable fee of 100 euros, and deliveries were planned for the end of 2026. The sources lack data on continuous operation and on failure rates. A real strength is the backing: the company secured a record funding round and partnerships with Bosch and AWS, which raises the odds that the project survives to production. A practical discussion of where humanoids work is in the article “Humanoid Robots in Factories 2026”, and the topic pages are factories and warehouses.

Who it's for

The Gen 3.5 is for large industrial plants and integrators in Europe planning strategic pilots of a humanoid from a German maker with access to EU-based support. It suits companies that already work with Neura on cobots (the MAiRA and LARA lines) and want to build a coherent ecosystem. It will interest innovation departments in large corporations that can afford close to 100 thousand euros for a pilot unit.

It is not a robot for small and medium companies looking for a quick return on investment. The target price of about 98,000 euros (about 429 thousand PLN) is among the highest in the category, deliveries have not started, and the technical claims have not been independently confirmed. We also do not recommend it to those who need confirmed deployments: there are none in the sources. In Poland the model is not available.

Deployments

Outside Poland we also found no documented deployment of the Gen 3.5 in production work: the robot is in pre-order, and the closest step to an announcement is the partnership with Bosch (January 2026) on industrialization, that is, preparation for production, not confirmation of work in a factory. How humanoids actually work in industry is better shown by more thoroughly documented cases: the Apptronik Apollo with Mercedes (“Apptronik Apollo in Mercedes-Benz Factories”) and the electric Atlas (“Boston Dynamics Electric Atlas”). The state of humanoid deployments changes fast; we will add a confirmed case in Poland here.

The Figure 03 is the main competitor in industrial and home work: 172 cm, 20 kg payload, 5 hours of work; no published price. The Apptronik Apollo claims a 25 kg payload and 71 DOF; it works with Mercedes, so its automotive track record is better documented than Neura's. The Atlas is 190 cm, with a claimed 50 kg payload and 56 DOF; it is a design from a well-known brand with a long robotics history, still at the prototype stage. The Agility Digit 5 is smaller but has been tested in warehouses for years. The Unitree H2 at 29,900 USD (about 116 thousand PLN) is a fraction of Neura's price and available today, though without a claimed payload and without a European backing. If the buyer values a European maker, the choice narrows to Neura.

Neura Robotics was founded in 2019. Key points on the timeline according to our catalog: in January 2025 the company raised 120 million euros in a Series B and doubled headcount to more than 300; in May 2025 it acquired B.A.H. Industrial Solutions, and in June 2025 it presented the third-generation 4NE-1 humanoid at the Automatica trade fair. In October 2025 it bought ek robotics (AGVs), passing 1,100 employees, and in December it opened a development center in Zurich, where it concentrates work on the 4NE-1. In January 2026 it announced a partnership with Bosch on industrializing humanoids. In June 2026 the company closed a Series C round of about 1.4 billion USD with participation from, among others, Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, Bosch and Schaeffler, along with a partnership with AWS; the official announcement speaks of an amount of up to 1.4 billion USD, so that is a maximum, not confirmed inflow.