The A.I. Daily
Eka Robotics raises $150M Series A at $1.45B valuation
Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, raised a $150M Series A led by a16z and F-Prime at a $1.45B post-money valuation. Its force-sensitive gripper and deep-learning model pick up varied objects without retraining, at about 1,500 items per hour with over 95% success.