@EkaRobotics
The Era of Superhuman Robotics.
Pierre Schumacher @rlfromluxIt’s a great experience to work in a startup in robotics right now. Chaos, ideas, hard work and incredibly rewarding results. I can only recommend!
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology@EkaRobotics has raised a $150M Series A. Generality v/s Performance is the fundamental tension at the frontier of robotics. Generality without performance is just a prototype. Performance without generality is just a single-purpose tool. Customers shouldn’t have to choose. Eka breaks the tradeoff. Powered by our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, we deliver the performance and versatility customers need to put robots to work every day. Eka is built on three convictions: ⚡️Force is the language of manipulation. 🚀 Reinforcement learning is how dexterous manipulation scales. 🎂 System 1—fast, reliable physical execution—is the bottleneck to solve. With this funding, we will scale our model and accelerate customer deployments. Grateful to be building alongside a dream team and investors who share our ambition.
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology@EkaRobotics has raised a $150M Series A. Generality v/s Performance is the fundamental tension at the frontier of robotics. Generality without performance is just a prototype. Performance without generality is just a single-purpose tool. Customers shouldn’t have to choose. Eka breaks the tradeoff. Powered by our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, we deliver the performance and versatility customers need to put robots to work every day. Eka is built on three convictions: ⚡️Force is the language of manipulation. 🚀 Reinforcement learning is how dexterous manipulation scales. 🎂 System 1—fast, reliable physical execution—is the bottleneck to solve. With this funding, we will scale our model and accelerate customer deployments. Grateful to be building alongside a dream team and investors who share our ambition.
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology@EkaRobotics has raised a $150M Series A. Generality v/s Performance is the fundamental tension at the frontier of robotics. Generality without performance is just a prototype. Performance without generality is just a single-purpose tool. Customers shouldn’t have to choose. Eka breaks the tradeoff. Powered by our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, we deliver the performance and versatility customers need to put robots to work every day. Eka is built on three convictions: ⚡️Force is the language of manipulation. 🚀 Reinforcement learning is how dexterous manipulation scales. 🎂 System 1—fast, reliable physical execution—is the bottleneck to solve. With this funding, we will scale our model and accelerate customer deployments. Grateful to be building alongside a dream team and investors who share our ambition.
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologySafe human-robot interaction with Eka's force-first approach to robotics: Vision-Force-Action Models (VFA).
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologySafe human-robot interaction with Eka's force-first approach to robotics: Vision-Force-Action Models (VFA).
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologyThrilled that @EkaRobotics launch was covered by @WIRED as the big story, which says, "watching Eka's robotic claw feels like we're approaching the ChatGPT moment for the physical world". We are not there yet, but it feels within reach. Let's build the future of robotics together – whether you are a researcher, engineer, or a product/program manager, we are hiring: I am grateful to be working alongside an amazing team and proud of what we have accomplished so far. We are scaling up our foundation model, a Vision-Force-Action Model (VFA) for dexterous manipulation and real-world applications through customer deployments. @willknight from WIRED brought his own objects to play with our robots, and Eka's systems worked. Robots will never be slow again. Powered by Eka's tech, they are fast, reliable, general, and safe!
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologyEka means unity -- “one,” in Sanskrit and “first” in Finnish. We’re building intelligence for the physical world in its native language: forces. Until now, robotics faced a tradeoff — generality or speed. The real world requires both. Robotics also faced a data problem. Our Vision–Force–Action (VFA) model — the first of its kind — breaks the generality-speed tradeoff and the data barrier. It's a new foundation uniting performance, generality, and safety for putting capable robots in everyone's hands. Today, I am excited to share our journey of pushing robots beyond human limits. Today, dexterity becomes scalable. Today, I welcome you to the Era of Eka. Co-founded with @haarnoja, and so thrilled and grateful to be working with a dream team at @EkaRobotics. Learn more:
WIRED @WIREDFrom sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologyWe don't speed up our videos. We slow them down. 1/25x. @EkaRobotics.
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologyForces are the language of the physical world. At @EkaRobotics, we're building a Vision-Force-Action Model (VFA).
Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitologyUntil now, robotics stopped where the human hand begins. Strong, but not delicate. Precise, but not adaptive. Repetitive, but not creative. The human hand wasn’t a benchmark — it was a boundary. We are crossing it. @EkaRobotics. Coming soon.
