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Congratulations Xiaopeng He! 🥳🥂🍾 #XPENG’s humanoid robotics company just raised $900M in its first round! 🤖🦿🦾 After robots, it will be syncing machines & humans, through brain-computer interfaces (BCI) - 🔄🧠⚡

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