NEURA Robotics, the German robotics company based in Metzingen, said on 24 August 2026 that its subsidiary NEURA Mobile Robots is acquiring 100% of the shares of ADLATUS Robotics, a maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping robots based in Ulm.
The companies did not disclose the price or say when the deal is expected to close. NEURA said ADLATUS has hundreds of robots in use and has developed its own navigation software.
ADLATUS will become part of the NEURA group and draw on its manufacturing, international sales and technology platform. NEURA Mobile Robots plans to build autonomous cleaning into a separate product family within its range of autonomous mobile robots.
What ADLATUS built
ADLATUS, whose name is Latin for helper, was founded by Matthias Strobel and Siegfried Hochdorfer and has been building cleaning robots since 2015, according to Railway Gazette. Its CR700 cleaning robot was first shown in 2016. In 2018 the robot was being tested at Ulm's main railway station, and ADLATUS won Deutsche Bahn's Automated Cleaning Challenge that year. The CR700 cleans for three to five hours per charge and drives itself to a service station to recharge and change water.
The company designs, manufactures and sells its robots and also offers consulting, project planning, commissioning, training and support. Its machines are used in industry, logistics, healthcare and commercial and public spaces. NEURA said the company brings more than 20 years of robotics experience, together with established customer relationships and practical knowledge of how cleaning work is done.
NEURA did not report ADLATUS's headcount or revenue.
“We’re not buying ADLATUS just to add another cleaning robot to our portfolio. We want to give machines like this a new brain.”
Why NEURA is buying
NEURA wants to fit ADLATUS robots with more sensors and AI and connect them step by step to the Neuraverse, its software platform for what it calls physical AI. The aim is for a cleaning robot to do more than follow a set route: it should recognise different floor surfaces and types of dirt, choose a cleaning method and learn from each job. NEURA said the installed base of ADLATUS machines will be used to develop and test those capabilities in real buildings.
Andreas Lindemann, managing director of NEURA Mobile Robots, said the unit wants to move beyond moving materials around factories and warehouses, and that cleaning is the next step. The company also plans to connect the cleaning robots to its fleet manager software, so that existing customers can run them alongside transport robots.
NEURA founder and chief executive David Reger said the company was not buying ADLATUS just to add a cleaning robot to its range, and described cleaning as a large global labour market. NEURA said the Neuraverse will stay open to other makers of cleaning and mobile robots.
A partnership that came first
The two companies have worked together under a strategic partnership since September 2025 and first appeared together publicly at the CMS cleaning trade fair in Berlin.
ADLATUS raised a seed round in January 2017 from High-Tech Gründerfonds and MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg to develop new products and build a sales team. The amount was not disclosed.
NEURA's buying spree
The deal follows NEURA's earlier move to take over the ACTIVE Shuttle, an autonomous transport robot from Bosch Rexroth. NEURA said it wants to bring robots for different jobs onto one shared AI infrastructure rather than treat each machine separately.
NEURA Mobile Robots, which sells automated guided vehicles under the ek robotics brand, is based in Hamburg and has sites in Reutlingen, Milan, Prague and Buckingham. It has more than 300 employees. NEURA Robotics itself was founded in 2019 and develops cognitive robots and the Neuraverse.
Reger presented the deal as part of a broader plan to combine Europe's existing industrial and engineering know-how with AI rather than build every machine from scratch.
