NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world
NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a shortage of real experience.
The German robotics firm NEURA has a theory about why robots still fumble in the real world. The problem is not that they are too stupid. It is that they have not practised enough. Its answer is a chain of gyms, where machines work out under real conditions.
NEURA has announced a new training centre with RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany’s top engineering schools. The NEURA Gym RWTH Aachen will cover about 3,000 square metres at the Hightech Campus Melaten and open by the end of 2026. Around 20 of the university’s institutes will plug into it.
It is one node in a wider build-out. Ten gyms are in development, and five should run by...
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