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NEURA's IFA keynote: a fleet OS called Neuraverse, and 4NE1 still means a reservation, not a delivery

NEURA's IFA keynote: a fleet OS called Neuraverse, and 4NE1 still means a reservation, not a delivery

NEURA Robotics gave the Saturday-afternoon keynote at IFA Berlin’s Innovation Stage today, and the headline wasn’t a new robot — it was software. CEO David Reger used the slot to detail Neuraverse, a cloud platform meant to let a skill learned by one 4NE1 propagate to every other unit connected to it, positioning the company’s humanoid and industrial lines as nodes on a shared network rather than standalone machines.

What didn’t move is the number that actually matters to a buyer. NEURA’s official reservation page still lists the 4NE1 Gen 3.5 at €98,000 for a single unit, dropping to roughly €60,000 per robot for fleet orders of 20 or more — about $105,000 and $65,000 at current exchange rates. A smaller 4NE1 Mini remains at €19,999. None of that is new; it’s the same tiered pricing NEURA published earlier this year, reaffirmed rather than revised.

The distinction worth holding onto is the one between “reservation” and “delivery.” A reservation page with a real price is further along than a demo with no checkout at all, which is why we carry 4NE1 as preorder rather than not-for-sale. But Gen 3.5 units haven’t shipped to outside customers yet — deliveries are still slated for later this year — so a keynote about fleet-learning software is a roadmap claim about robots that, as of today, mostly exist as reservations. Germany’s Neura Robotics remains the only humanoid maker in the country selling at this scale of ambition; whether Neuraverse ships alongside real hardware, rather than ahead of it, is the thing to check back on.

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Primary sources referenced in this article. Prices in the tables come from the live index and carry their own as-of dates.

  1. NEURA Robotics: 4NE1 reservation — official product page (neura-robotics.com)