We will be at CoRL and we are hiring. If general, performant, and reliable robotics excites you, fill out the form and talk to a member of our technical team: https://t.co/XSXzjLKbsB
@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.
Thrilled 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: https://t.co/HzaBo6y0Ay
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!
Excited to share some of my work at @EkaRobotics these last 6 months! It takes a one-of-a-kind team threading the needle of research and engineering to hit this level of swiftness and repeatability. The arm truly behaves like an animal :)
Excited to share some of my work at @EkaRobotics these last 6 months! It takes a one-of-a-kind team threading the needle of research and engineering to hit this level of swiftness and repeatability. The arm truly behaves like an animal :)
Excited to be able to share what I've been working on for the past 6 months!
@EkaRobotics is building something really special, and our robots don't have to sacrifice speed or dexterity for generalization
Excited to be able to share what I've been working on for the past 6 months!
@EkaRobotics is building something really special, and our robots don't have to sacrifice speed or dexterity for generalization
🧵In the world of physical AI, we’re used to seeing videos sped up to hide how slow robots actually are.
@EkaRobotics is doing the exact opposite.
They’re showing their robots at 1/25x speed because the movement is so fast and the force-sensitivity so precise, you’d miss the "superhuman" dexterity in real-time.
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts? https://t.co/ksr93XThPc
Eka 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: https://t.co/QYQ6x2Etyi