Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group rushes into humanoid robots with a dozen deals in 18 months

Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is aggressively entering the humanoid robotics market. The company led a seventy-three point six million dollar funding round in Zeroth, a robotics startup—one of a dozen robotics investments Ant has made in just eighteen months. According to CNBC, the portfolio push signals how seriously Chinese tech firms are pursuing automation and robotics as a strategic frontier.

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