Eka Robotics raises $150M for robot scaling
The Robot Report: Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its technology and customer deployments. Founded in 2024, Eka is building a vision-force-action (VFA) model to develop an intuition of physics through reinforcement learning at scale. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company said that robots using its AI can pick a wide variety o
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A robotics startup has raised funding to scale its vision-force-action model, an artificial intelligence approach designed to give robots an intuition for physics through reinforcement learning rather than by mimicking human movements. The model enables robots to handle a wide variety of objects outside their training data and perform tasks like picking items at high speeds or manipulating objects such as screwing in light bulbs. The company argues that robots need to master physics and jointly reason about vision and forces to become truly general-purpose, and that simulation learning combined with real-world deployment represents a scalable path toward this goal. This funding round reflects investor interest in advancing dexterous manipulation, the capability for robots to perform complex physical tasks reliably and efficiently in real-world conditions.
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