NEURA and TUM open EUR 17M RoboGym in Munich, launch 4NE1 Gen 4 humanoid 20% lighter
[NEURA Robotics](/companies/neura-robotics) said in a press release on Oct 22 that it and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have opened the TUM RoboGym powered by NEURA, a robot training and research centre of more than 2,300 square metres at LabCampus near Munich Airport, built with TUM's robotics institute MIRMI.
The partners are investing about EUR 17 million over an initial three years, of which NEURA puts in about EUR 11 million in robots, infrastructure, computing and staff, while TUM supplies the space and researchers.
Companies from more than ten industries, among them automotive, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, logistics, agriculture and care, have been training tasks there since September, such as handling cartons, filling bottles and loading wooden parts, with data from real robots, human demonstrations recorded with sensor suits, motion capture and teleoperation, and simulation.
At the opening NEURA launched 4NE1 Gen 4, a humanoid it says is designed for series production, 20% lighter than the previous generation, wrapped in a textile skin, with reflexes built into each limb and running on its Neuron AI perception-language-action model.
Munich is the first of a planned network of NEURA Gyms in Europe, the United States and China; a second German gym is being built with RWTH Aachen. MEKAWIRE context: NEURA's share works out to about 65% of the budget (11 of 17), and the gym opens four months after its Series C of up to $1.4 billion ([story](/news/neura-robotics-series-c-1-4b-physical-ai-20260610)); Italy's Generative Bionics announced a 5,000 square metre physical-AI data factory a day earlier ([story](/news/generative-bionics-physical-ai-data-factory-5000-sqm-italy-hub-q4-2027-amd-helios-gene-01-humanoid-20261021)).
Background on Germany's robot base is in our [Germany and Europe market explainer](/news/germany-europe-robotics-market-2026-explained-24800-robot-installations-41-percent-of-eu-production-down-24-percent-20261017), and on models like Neuron AI in our [VLA explainer](/news/what-is-a-vla-model-robot-foundation-models-explained-rt-2-pi0-gr00t-gemini-robotics-2-94bn-raised-2026-20261017).