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Europeans in Japan raise $1.2M to put modular humanoid robots to work

September 24

O-ID , a Tokyo-based company founded by two Europeans building one of the world’s first fully modular humanoid robots for industrial manufacturing and logistics, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed…

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