NEURA is building robot 'gyms' because robots have no internet's worth of training data

On 24 July 2026 NEURA Robotics opened NEURA Gym at RWTH Aachen (~3,000 m²), its second German site after Munich (~2,300 m²), in a planned network of 10 facilities across Europe, the US and China with half due to be running by the end of 2026. The sites pair physical robot cells with high-fidelity simulation to manufacture multimodal interaction data for the company's Neuraverse platform, so partners can train and validate for a specific use case before committing to industrial deployment. NEURA's own framing: "Unlike large language models, which train on trillions of data points, robots have access to a fraction of that volume." The build-out is backed by the company's $1.4 billion Series C.

What it means Physical AI's bottleneck is data, not model architecture — and data you have to physically produce is capital expenditure, which is why this reads more like a factory build-out than a research programme.