Digital asset firm Tether leads a funding round of up to $1.4bn for Neura Robotics to advance autonomous machines.
Digital asset firm Tether Investments has acted as the lead investor in a Series C financing round of up to $1.4B for cognitive robotics company NEURA Robotics.
The funding focuses on integrating advanced intelligence and financial capabilities into multi-form-factor robotic systems, including humanoids and robotic arms.
This capital injection aims to establish a machine economy by allowing autonomous systems to interact, cooperate, and execute economic activities independently. By embedding decentralised financial rails into physical machinery, the collaboration accelerates the commercial readiness of global industrial automation.
The initiative addresses the inability of traditional software and payment infrastructure to scale alongside autonomous intelligence. Current systems rely heavily on centralised cloud processing and human-managed approval chains, which create operational latency and processing bottlenecks.
NEURA Robotics will integrate Tether’s open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK) to enable self-custodial financial transactions. The platforms will also deploy the QVAC edge-first AI runtime to execute artificial intelligence models locally on devices.
Paolo Ardoino, CEO at Tether, said: “Autonomous machines need the ability to process information locally, make decisions, and transact without relying on centralised intermediaries.”
David Reger, Founder & CEO at NEURA Robotics, said: “Together with Tether, we see a future where intelligent machines can not only learn and act autonomously, but also coordinate, transact, and create value in a trusted global ecosystem.”
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