Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots to grip by feel
Eka Robotics trains its robots to grip in a physics simulator, not from human demonstrations. It says they pick 1,500 objects an hour, against about 600 for a person.
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Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The round values the company at $1.45B post-money, Tim Fernholz reported for TechCrunch.
F-Prime is a venture fund linked to FMR, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund, which led Eka’s seed round, invested again. MFV Partners, Bison…
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