Miguel Cruz

Venture Capitalist @samsungnext | Thoughts are my own.

[THEKER Robotics @THEKER_ai]

We just raised $85M, Europe's largest ever robotics Series A, led by @CRV, with backing from @Samsung and @LVMH.

But this story did not start today.

Carla and Jia have been obsessed with robots since they were kids. They met as engineers at UPC, started the university's robotics club, and competed and won at an international level.

Years later, that obsession became THEKER: a company built from Barcelona to be the largest in the world, and to crack the technical problems other people call impossible.

Today we are well on our way to the goal we set on day one: solve 100% of physical work. Our robots are live in production, improving every day, and the pace is only increasing.

This round is not the destination. It is one more step in the right direction.

Thank you to everyone who got us here. To our team, who hold a standard most people would call unreasonable. To our customers, who push us to become better. And to our investors, old and new, who saw it before the rest of the world did.

If this mission excites you, we are hiring across the board. Come build it with us.

We will win.

[Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology]

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

[Miguel Cruz @cm27_]

Now the world can see what @pulkitology @haarnoja and team have been up to @EkaRobotics

https://t.co/HsrODHHDmC

[Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology]

We don't speed up our videos. We slow them down.
1/25x. @EkaRobotics.

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

If being the best makes you bad, then so be it. #OpeningDayLA

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

Mike Elko was not happy about the loud Texas celebrations interrupting his press conference 😅

[Jason Gallagher @jga41agher]

Leave it to Dirk Nowitzki to give the best monologue I've heard on national TV about why the Nico Harrison firing was long overdue. 41 forever.

[NBA on Prime @NBAonPrime]

Dirk Nowitzki sat down with Luka Dončić to discuss last season's trade to the Lakers, his work habits in the offseason and much more 🙌

#NBAonPrime

[CNBC @CNBC]

Nvidia, Bill Gates-backed robotics startup FieldAI hits $2 billion valuation after recent raise https://t.co/njnxop5DVc

[NBC DFW @NBCDFW]

“I'm wearing them in protest for the trade from Dallas. Tremendous mistake by the Dallas franchise to trade him and I want everybody to know that," Nelson said. https://t.co/27f87r7pVl

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

“Nico, go ahead and trade Luka to LA. I’ll make sure you guys get the No. 1 pick this summer.”

[ESPN @espn]

ALL THE FEELS FOR LUKA'S RETURN TO DALLAS ❤️

The Mavs honored Luka with a tribute video before he took the court with the Lakers 👏

[Gatorade @Gatorade]

One journey fuels the next ⚡ @luka7doncic

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

It would appear Luka may have taken this whole trade thing personally

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Dirk says Luka invited him to his first game as a Laker

"He invited me to come out to his first game in LA... He was pretty down & disappointed on how it went down, so I wanted to be there for him." 😢

(Via @michmontaine )

[Dirk Nowitzki @swish41]

I will always be a Mav for life, but had to come support my guy 77 @luka7doncic in the first game of his new chapter!

[Showtime Luka @showtimeluka]

In case you don’t understand why people are mad, a second opportunity of this was traded which goes beyond basketball.

[Luka Doncic @lukadoncic]

#MFFL

[TatumsWrld @wrldoftatum]

Jerry Jones realizing he’s not the dumbest sports GM in Dallas anymore

[Miguel Cruz @cm27_]

It’s always great to hear what @oyhsu thinks about intelligent machines

[Oliver Hsu @oyhsu]

[New Post] Towards a Horizontal Robotics Platform

We are excited about the ongoing work in robotics & embodied AI because it can enable an emerging robotics platform — a horizontal foundation for an ecosystem of robotic applications to be built across tasks, environments, and embodiments.