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RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce


“These are the kind of jobs that we shouldn't need people to do anymore," founder Leo Ma said about dangerous factory jobs.

Enter RoboForce, the company Ma founded 19 months ago with the ambition of creating hyper-accurate robot workers to do tasks like solar panel installation. Investors include Nobel Laureate economist Myron Scholes, well-known Chinese fund VC Gary Rieschel formerly of Softbank, and Ma’s alma mater Carnegie Mellon University. This past summer, AES Corporation introduced the world to Maximo, a massive robot that the company claims will install solar panels twice as fast as a human.

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