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September 30, 2019

Being ‘impact-shamed’ on Christmas by his wife turned Denmark’s robot-king into an investor

Having sold two robotics companies for a total of €560m over the course of a few years, Esben Østergaard has had enough of being an entrepreneur.


As a 4-year-old, Esben Østergaard built his first Lego robot. Four decades later the Dane has sold two robotics companies for hundreds of millions of euros and is an early pioneer of the cobot, which are nimble and flexible collaborative robots being deployed on factory floors across the world.

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