Hardware · Updated 20 Oct, 06:30 pm IST
Eka Robotics valued at $1.45B after $150M Series A for physical AI robot
Why it matters for readers: Gives a concrete example of AI being applied to make robots manipulate real objects more effectively.
- Eka closed a $150 million Series A round led by a16z and F-Prime, valuing the company at $1.45 billion post-money.1
- The company combines a force-sensitive gripper with a novel deep-learning model for dexterous manipulation.1
- Investors and roboticists described the system as demonstrating 'wow' or near-superhuman performance on certain tasks.1
- Founders include MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja.1
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