Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A at $1.45B for Vision-Force-Action Robot Model Led by a16z and F-Prime

Eka Robotics, co-founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation led by a16z and F-Prime. The company pitches a vision-force-action architecture instead of VLA, pairing a force-sensitive gripper with sim-and-RL training; it claims ~1,500 object picks per hour at 95% reliability. One roboticist compared the demo to robots first achieving reliable legged locomotion.