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Billionaire Qatar Sheikh, Amazon Back Robotics Startup Neura

A humanoid robot demonstrates handling laundry at the Neura Robotics booth at the 2025 IFA Consumer Electronics and Home Appliances trade fair in Berlin.Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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By Ben Scent, Arno Schuetze, and Mark Bergen

March 24, 2026 at 6:56 PM UTC

Updated on

March 25, 2026 at 7:17 AM UTC

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, a billionaire member of the Qatari royal family, and Amazon.com Inc. have joined the latest funding round for German startup Neura Robotics.

HBJ, as the former Qatari premier is known, recently became a shareholder in Neura Robotics through a unit of his holding company Prime Capital SA, according to corporate registry filings.