4NE1
About
About 4NE1
4NE1 combines bipedal mobility with articulated arms, hands and NEURA’s cognitive-robotics sensing architecture. Integrated visual, acoustic, force and touch inputs are intended to let the robot interpret nearby people, objects and task context while operating in environments designed around human movement.
The platform connects to NEURA’s Neuraverse software and wider robot portfolio, allowing skills and data to move between humanoid, collaborative and mobile systems. Initial applications centre on industrial support, logistics and service assistance. 4NE1 remains in staged commercial development as NEURA expands production and customer integration.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Capability areas: Whole-body control
- Workflows: Humanoid workplace tasks, Industrial humanoid automation
- Operating environments: Factory floor
- Target markets: Industrial operators and service providers evaluating flexible humanoid platforms.
- Deployment model: Development-stage platform progressing toward commercial deployment.
- Natural-language interaction
Claimed - Receive spoken instructions from a nearby person and respond through the robot interface. - environment: Industrial and home environments
Source - Material handling
Claimed - Pick up and carry objects between work areas. - environment: Industrial and home environments
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Operations
- Target Annual Capacity Humanoids
6,000 humanoids/year - 2026-06-10 - Germany - NEURA Robotics’ short-term humanoid production-capacity target was 6,000 units in 2026. The figure is a company target for humanoid capacity, not confirmed annual output.
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Resources
Media library
- 4NE1 Gen3 lineup
image · NEURA Robotics
Source - Discover 4NE-1
video · NEURA Robotics
Source - 4NE1 sandwich demonstration
video · NEURA Robotics
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Official current-generation specifications, exact-product imagery and verified NEURA Robotics videos for the 4NE1 humanoid platform.
- 4NE1 product reference
WEB · 4NE1 · NEURA Robotics
Source - 4NE1 datasheet
PDF · 4NE1 · NEURA Robotics
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Timeline
- NEURA Robotics and SECO partner on European robot compute modules
2026-09-07 - Partnership - The scope includes NEURA's 4NE1 humanoid and other cognitive-robot platforms. The compute modules integrate Qualcomm Dragonwing processors for perception, control and edge AI. The companies also plan a NEURA Gym in Italy and data collaboration tied to production environments.
Source - NEURA Robotics secures Series C of up to US$1.4B
2026-06-10 - Funding - Tether, Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon, NVIDIA, imec.xpand, Bosch, Schaeffler, the European Investment Bank, Lingotto Horizon and InterAlpen Partners participated. NEURA assigned the financing to cognitive-robot and humanoid deployments, expansion of Neuraverse and rollout of NEURA Gyms. The company also linked the capital to manufacturing capacity, deployment infrastructure and next-generation Physical AI systems.
Source - NEURA Robotics unveils 4NE1 Gen 3.5, 4NE1 Mini, and NEURA Quadruped at CES 2026
2026-01-05 - Product Launch - NEURA Robotics unveiled the 4NE1 Gen 3.5 humanoid robot, designed in collaboration with Studio F.A. Porsche, at CES 2026. The company also introduced the 4NE1 Mini, a compact humanoid robot, and the NEURA Quadruped, a four-legged robot for complex environments. Preorders for these robots began with a €100 deposit, with the 4NE1 Gen 3.5 priced at €98,000 and the 4NE1 Mini at €19,999.
Source - NEURA Robotics Opens Zurich Hub for Humanoid Robotics R&D
2025-12-09 - Facility Opening - NEURA Robotics established a 1,800-square-meter facility on Zollikerstrasse in Zurich's Seefeld district. The Zurich site will focus on the holistic development of the humanoid robot 4NE1, with production remaining in Metzingen. Proximity to ETH Zurich's robotics labs and leading research institutions influenced the location choice.
Source - NEURA Robotics Unveils Third-Generation 4NE-1 Humanoid Robot at Automatica 2025
2025-06-24 - Product Launch - The 4NE-1 humanoid robot features artificial skin that detects touch before physical contact, enhancing safety in human-robot interactions. Equipped with an intelligent dual-battery system, 4NE-1 supports uninterrupted 24/7 operation and can lift up to 100 kilograms. NEURA Robotics introduced the Neuraverse, an open robotics ecosystem designed like an app store, enabling networked learning across different robot types.
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Context
Market context
4NE1 is Neura Robotics' humanoid platform combining mobility, manipulation and perception for use across industrial and service environments.
- Target environment: Factory floors, logistics sites and structured service environments.
- Workflow context: Material handling, inspection and human-adjacent tasks where the platform's multi-environment capability is relevant.
- Customer context: Industrial operators and service providers evaluating flexible humanoid platforms.
- Deployment model: Development-stage platform progressing toward commercial deployment.
- Commercial maturity: Active development platform with growing industry partnerships.
- Adoption constraints: As a relatively new humanoid entry, the main constraint is deployment track record and proving task reliability across environments.
- Market position: Positioned as a multi-environment system rather than a narrow-task robot. Competes in the industrial humanoid space alongside Apollo, Digit and Walker S2.
- Adjacent products: Apollo, Walker S2, Digit
Tags
- Peer Group: Bipedal industrial humanoid, Walking bipedal humanoid robot, Humanoid robot platform, Full-size bipedal humanoid robot
- Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks, Industrial humanoid automation
- Capability: Whole-body control
- Deployment Environment: Factory floor
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
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