Harry O’Connor had spent five weeks in an entrepreneurial residency programme run by a venture capital firm in San Francisco. It was exciting as his plan to build bipedal, two-legged, humanoid robots attracted a lot of interest last October. “When I came back I had some offers,” he said. O’Connor messaged back and forth as he tried to broker the best deal. Eventually, two European investors and two American investors were prepared to back him at a $4 million valuation. There was only one problem: he was still only 17.  On December 30, 2023, he turned 18 allowing him to…

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