NEURA Robotics acquires ADLATUS to bring Physical AI to autonomous cleaning

NEURA Robotics is adding a new job for its Physical AI stack: autonomous cleaning. Through NEURA Mobile Robots, it is taking over all of ADLATUS Robotics, the Ulm-based maker of cleaning and sweeping robots.

The logic here is pretty clear. NEURA has been building a shared infrastructure for different machines and applications, and ADLATUS brings a category that already has real commercial weight. The company says ADLATUS has hundreds of systems in the market, its own navigation software, and years of experience in cleaning work across industry, logistics, healthcare, and public spaces.

The plan is not to leave those robots as they are. NEURA wants to add more sensors and AI, then fold them into Neuraverse, its platform for combining AI models, sensor data, and capabilities. The pitch is that a cleaning robot should move beyond tracing a preset path and start reading the room: spotting surfaces, noticing types of dirt, interpreting situations, and choosing how to clean.

David Reger, NEURA’s founder and CEO, framed the deal as a way to give machines “a new brain,” not just another product line. Andreas Lindemann, who runs NEURA Mobile Robots, called autonomous cleaning a natural next step beyond material handling and said the company also wants to plug these systems into its Fleet Manager.

The two companies have already been working together since September 2025, and their first public appearance as partners was at CMS in Berlin. ADLATUS will also get access to NEURA Group production expertise, its international sales network, and its broader technology platform, while NEURA picks up customer relationships and hands-on cleaning know-how from the ADLATUS side.