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Kiwi startup Rocos Global was barely up and running with its platform to make robots move when it caught the attention of China tech giant iFlytek.
The Auckland company had developed a cloud-based platform to operate fleets of autonomous robots: a third-party system for iFlytek and other robot manufacturers to control their robots from anywhere.
China’s president, Xi Jinping, had designated iFlytek one of his national champions to lead the country to international dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), and the NZ$20 billion company was scanning the globe for partnership opportunities.
It signed a multi-year research agreement with prestigious American university MIT in 2018 and a year later was ready to ink a deal with a little-known, two-year-old New Zealand company.
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