GoKawiilEka Robotics raises $150M Series A at $1.45B valuation for manipulation AI
Eka Robotics, founded by MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, has closed a $150 million Series A round led by a16z and F-Prime, valuing the startup at $1.45 billion. The company built a force-sensitive gripper paired with a new deep-learning model that lets robots grasp roughly 1,500 varied objects per hour with over 95% reliability, outperforming average human picking speed.