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Robots that aim to make space travel safer and cheaper

Japan-based startup, Gitai. The company, which has so far raised over $47 million from venture capital firms such as Daiwa Corporate Investment Venture Growth Fund, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital IX and Global Brain CVC Funds, aims to build robots that can operate in space on a variety of missions, including soil sampling on the Moon. But at the center of Nakanose’s company is a simple idea: that using robots in space will save people’s lives and health.