Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, is leading a landmark Series C funding round of up to $1.4 billion for German cognitive robotics firm NEURA Robotics. This ranks among the largest private financing rounds in robotics and physical AI history. The investment will accelerate NEURA’s production of humanoid robots, autonomous mobile robots, precision arms and service robots, while also building out its Neuraverse platform — a unified software ecosystem connecting robots, AI models, data and services.
Beyond capital, Tether will integrate two core technologies directly into NEURA’s ecosystem. The first is the Wallet Development Kit (WDK), an open-source self-custody wallet framework that will let machines receive micropayments for tasks, transact with other systems and execute economic actions autonomously — without centralized intermediaries. The second is QVAC, Tether’s edge AI runtime, enabling on-device processing of artificial intelligence models; critical for industrial environments where latency and data control matter.
CEOs Paolo Ardoino (Tether) and David Reger (NEURA) framed the partnership as building the infrastructure for a future machine economy, where autonomous robots can process information locally, make decisions and transact independently. Advisors on the deal included Skadden, Porsche Consulting and Deloitte. The move signals Tether’s strategic expansion beyond stablecoins into physical AI and decentralized financial infrastructure.
