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With the growing demand for automation industries and robotics innovation in industries like manufacturing and logistics, it is no wonder that Apptronik closed a $350 million Series A funding round that was co-led by B capital and Capital Factory in conjunction with Google. Apptronik, an Austin-based human-centred robotics company that started out of the Human Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin wants to expand its team to meet the growing demand for next-generation humanoid robots. Of course, it now gets to do that on a large scale with this funding. Since its inception, Apptronik has developed over…