EKA Robotic Manipulation System
Give a robot force feedback and learned control for handling objects.
EKA Robotics Funding History
EKA Robotics builds hardware and software that help robots manipulate objects. Its system pairs a force-sensitive gripper with a model trained in physics simulations to use visual and force feedback.
Company Overview
EKA Robotics
Founded 2025 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Official WebsiteEKA Robotics Funding Timeline
Series A
US$150 million
Eka said the round would support dexterous manipulation research and accelerate customer deployments.
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, F-Prime Capital.
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EKA Robotics Founding Team
EKA Robotics combines academic robotics with reinforcement-learning research. Its founding team applies those disciplines to robotic manipulation, including tasks that depend on both vision and touch. The founding team included Tuomas Haarnoja.
- Pulkit Agrawal — CEO. MIT professor.
EKA Robotics Products
EKA Robotics Company Development
Teaching Robots to Handle Contact
Eka has made dexterous manipulation its first application for a model that uses both vision and force. Simulation lets the team vary objects and contact conditions during training. The company has demonstrated the resulting system on tasks such as inserting wires and screwing in a light bulb, and plans to test a wider range of tasks in customer deployments.
EKA Robotics Competitive Landscape
Manipulation Versus Whole-Body Robotics
EKA and Figure both tackle physical tasks with learned control, but EKA’s product centers on force-sensitive manipulation. Figure develops a full humanoid, where grasping is one problem alongside locomotion and whole-body control.
