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Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models.
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Eka Robotics announced a $150 million Series A financing round that values the startup at $1.45 billion post‑money. The company, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, has developed a manipulation architecture that pairs a force‑sensitive gripper with a novel deep‑learning model aimed at improving robotic pick‑and‑place performance. The round was led by venture firms a16z and F‑Prime.
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