Eka Robotics closes $150M Series A at $1.45B valuation

Eka Robotics closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, led by a16z and F-Prime. Founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, the startup pairs a force-sensitive gripper with a vision-force-action model.