Cleaning robots are getting an upgrade from a German robotics group that just raised €1.2 billion.
NEURA Robotics, based in Metzingen, is buying 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm company whose autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines are already deployed in the field. The transaction runs through NEURA Mobile Robots GmbH, the group’s logistics and automated-vehicle arm, and terms were not disclosed.
Founder and chief executive David Reger framed the deal as a software play, not a hardware rollup. “We want to give machines like this a new brain,” he said, describing cleaning as a massive global labor market and a textbook case for physical AI.
The acquisition follows the group’s agreement to absorb Bosch Rexroth’s ACTIVE Shuttle automated guided vehicle business, which brought fleet management and navigation software into the fold.
NEURA, founded in 2019, builds the humanoid 4NE1 and the MAiRA and LARA arms, plus the AI infrastructure of its Neuraverse platform, where robots learn and share skills. The deals are part of a push to make that ecosystem the operating system for a new generation of machines.
