This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised roughly $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics, closed a $935 million funding round valuing the company…

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Tech billionaires spend 0M against California tax

Tech billionaires spend $120M against California tax

TL;DR Tech billionaires have poured over $120m into fighting California’s Proposition 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires heading to the November ballot, against $31m raised by union backers. Sergey Brin leads with $82m and has moved assets out of state; Doerr, Moritz, Collison, Schmidt, Larsen, Thiel, and others follow. Donation figures come from…

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Japan Keeps Designing Tiny Home Accessories That Make Small Spaces Feel Like Enough – Here Are 8 of the Best

Japan Keeps Designing Tiny Home Accessories That Make Small Spaces Feel Like Enough – Here Are 8 of the Best

Japanese design has always understood something that took the rest of the world considerably longer to figure out: a small space only feels limiting when the objects inside it aren’t doing enough. The country’s most enduring domestic products aren’t space-savers in the utilitarian sense — they’re space-earners, pieces that justify every square inch they occupy…

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