On 22 October 2026, NEURA Robotics made two announcements in Munich. The German manufacturer unveiled the fourth generation of its 4NE1 humanoid and, with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), opened a centre where robots learn industrial tasks: the TUM RoboGym.
A lighter 4NE1, designed for series production
According to NEURA, 4NE1 Gen 4 is 20% lighter than the previous generation. It gets a black textile skin, new hands for more precise grips and limbs with their own reflexes. It runs Neuron AI, an in-house model combining vision, touch, force and sound.
For this generation, NEURA publishes no weight in kilograms, no runtime, no price and no delivery date. The robot is “being prepared for series production” and already works in NEURA’s centres, where companies can teach it their tasks.
Generation 3.5 is still the one you can reserve
On its reservation page, NEURA still offers 4NE1 Gen 3.5: about EUR 98,000 per robot, excluding tax and delivery, with a refundable EUR 100 reservation and availability announced for the end of 2026. The page lists Python and C++ SDKs, a ROS 2 interface, a digital twin and teleoperation. For industrial volumes, NEURA refers buyers to its sales team.
RoboGym: training robots like apprentices
The centre covers more than 2,300 m² at LabCampus, near Munich airport. It is funded for three years with about EUR 17 million, of which about EUR 11 million comes from NEURA. Companies from more than ten sectors, from automotive to pharmaceuticals, have been training robots there since September on concrete tasks: handling cardboard boxes, filling bottles, loading wooden parts. Learning combines human demonstrations, simulation and trials on real robots.
Munich is presented as the first site in a network: further centres are planned in Europe, the US and China, and a second German centre is being built with RWTH Aachen.
Our view: NEURA is one of the few European humanoid makers to publish a price in euros and a delivery date. For a European buyer, that is a useful reference point. But the reservable generation is no longer the latest, and Gen 4 has neither a price nor a timeline. Before reserving, ask which generation will be delivered, which tasks the robot will actually perform and what service is included.
Explore the NEURA 4NE1 profile and the Bybotix comparison tool.
Cover image: NEURA Robotics, used to identify the platform; it does not necessarily show generation 4. Diagram: Bybotix, based on pages published by NEURA. Bybotix has not tested this robot.