NEURA Robotics and Qualcomm Technologies, have entered a long-term strategic collaboration to advance next-generation robotics and physical AI platforms. The partnership combines Qualcomm Technologies’ AI compute, connectivity, and robotics platforms with NEURA Robotics’ full-stack robotics systems and embodied AI software. The companies aim to accelerate scalable, real-world robotic intelligence for robots designed to operate safely alongside humans in industrial, service, household, and other environments.
The collaboration centers on joint development of “Brain + Nervous System” reference architectures. These pair high-level cognition functions such as perception, reasoning, and planning with ultra-low-latency, real-time control. Qualcomm Technologies will contribute its robotics processors, including the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, physical AI acceleration, software stack, and connectivity platforms. NEURA Robotics will integrate its hardware platforms and embodied AI software stack to support scalable solutions for real-world deployment.
The effort addresses compound AI, mixed-criticality systems, and standardized deployment. It aligns Qualcomm Technologies’ end-to-end robotics architecture including heterogeneous edge computing, edge AI, mixed-criticality systems, software, machine learning operations, and an AI data flywheel with NEURA’s platform strategy. Plans include a standardized runtime and deployment interface to facilitate AI workload deployment, validation, and updates across robotic platforms, supporting faster iteration with reliability and determinism.
NEURA’s Neuraverse platform is expected to serve as a core environment for simulation, training, orchestration, and lifecycle management of physical AI workloads on robots using Dragonwing Robotics processors. Neuraverse connects cognitive robots into a shared intelligence network, allowing breakthroughs from individual robots to be deployed across fleets.
The companies plan to foster a global developer ecosystem and marketplace for physical AI and robotics applications, promoting third-party innovation and a build-once, deploy-across-multiple-form-factors approach.
NEURA’s robotic systems including robotic arms, mobile robots, service and household robots, and humanoid platforms may function as reference platforms for development, testing, and real-world validation. The collaboration prioritizes functional safety, real-time responsiveness, and human-centric design, using a data-driven approach to improve reliability, determinism, and AI performance.
David Reger, CEO and Founder of NEURA Robotics, stated that the collaboration aims to make physical AI open, scalable, and trusted by combining NEURA’s cognitive robotics platforms and Neuraverse ecosystem with Qualcomm Technologies’ edge AI and connectivity leadership, targeting safe operation of cognitive robots alongside humans across industries and everyday life.
Nakul Duggal, EVP and Group GM for Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT and Robotics at Qualcomm Technologies, noted that robotics demands instant, reliable, local decisions without sole cloud reliance for safety-critical responses. He highlighted Qualcomm Technologies’ presence in robotics and ecosystem work with companies like NEURA Robotics to advance scalable on-device intelligence, reflecting a shift toward on-device perception and reasoning.
Through this collaboration, NEURA Robotics and Qualcomm Technologies seek to accelerate commercialization of humanoid and general-purpose robotics, moving physical AI from experimental systems to scalable, real-world deployment across industries.
