Eka Robotics nets $150M at a $1.45B valuation for robot hands that sense force
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Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)
Robot dexterity startup Eka Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in new funding at a reported valuation of $1.45 billion. Eka offers an artificial intelligence model for robotic manipulation that works from force data as well as camera images. The company calls it a vision-force-action model. Force sensors in a custom gripper […]
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E14 Fund,
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Improbable AI Lab,
Kris Hauser,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Obvious Ventures,
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Pulkit Agrawal,
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Tuomas Haarnoja,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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