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Eka Robotics

US robotics company founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and reinforcement-learning researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, building dexterous arms that learn manipulation in simulation with fingertip force sensing.

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  1. FundingEka Robotics raises $150M at a $1.45B valuation to teach robots by self-play instead of human video

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Eka Robotics raises $150M at a $1.45B valuation to teach robots by self-play instead of human video

Eka Robotics raised a $150 million Series A co-led by a16z and F-Prime at a $1.45 billion valuation, betting that dexterous robots can be trained in physics simulation instead of on human teleoperation data. It reports up to 1,500 pick operations per hour against a company-stated human baseline of about 600.

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