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Confused on use of ため in article about Honda's robot Ashimo

I'm reading this article about Ashimo the robot made by Honda and I don't understand the use of ため in this sentence. I have usually seen ため followed by the particle の or に, but in this case no particle is following it. Why is that? How is ため being used here?
I know ため can mean 'the benefit of' and the の or に give direction of who/what is getting the benefit, so I believe something similar is going on here. I'm assuming ため is pointing back to the portion about Ashimo, but I'm not sure.

アシモは２本の足で歩くことができて、高い技術を使っているため、世界が注目しました
Ashimo has the ability to walk using 2 legs and this is due to the use of expensive technology which the world has noticed

A:

As mentioned in the comments, ため has multiple uses and meanings. For your example sentence refer to the following:
Weblio: Definition 3.
Jisho.org:　Definition 3.
ため in this case is used to describe the reason behind the worldwide notice of Asimo. You can think of it as 'due to' in this sentence.
Due to being able to walk on two feet and using a high (level) of technology, Asimo is recognized around the world. 

