Eka Robotics raises $150M at $1.45B valuation for physical AI

Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation. Its vision-force-action model and force-sensitive gripper let a robot pick up about 1,500 objects weighing up to 1 kg per hour with over 95% reliability.

• The $150M Series A was led by a16z and F-Prime
• Eka Robotics is valued at $1.45B post-money
• The robot handles ~1,500 objects per hour vs ~600 for a human
• Grasp reliability exceeds 95% without retraining