Chinese professor-turned-founder's Robot Era bags $42m funding led by Alibaba

STAR 1, a full-size humanoid robot developed by Chinese embodied intelligence startup Robot Era, conducts a test run in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert in September 2024. Photo from Robot Era

Eudora Wang

18 October, 2024

Edited by: Joymitra Rai

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