Eka Robotics
Physical AI for dexterous robotic manipulation
CORE INFO
Eka Robotics builds integrated robotic systems for industrial customers that need to automate variable, hands-on work. Its systems target tasks including picking, packing, wire handling, electronics assembly, and delicate food handling.
- Series A: $150 million raised on October 20, 2026, led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, at a reported $1.45 billion post-money valuation.techcrunch.com
- Reported laboratory throughput: approximately 1,500 picks or operations per hour, compared with a stated human benchmark of roughly 600 per hour.ekarobotics.com
- WIRED observed Eka's robots handling keys, light bulbs, chicken nuggets, and other objects, describing the system as an early-stage demonstration rather than proof of production-ready general-purpose robotics.wired.com
WHY WE WOULD WORK AT EKA ROBOTICS
Redefine Physical Work
Help build general-purpose robots designed to perform dexterous tasks beyond traditional automation, from wire handling and insertion to assembly and packing.
Advance Physical AI
Work on Eka's Vision-Force-Action model, combining perception, force feedback, robot control, physics simulation, and reinforcement learning to give robots a richer understanding of contact.
Shape Frontier Robotics
Contribute to a full-stack system spanning custom force-aware hands, simulation, software, and deployment engineering. Reported demonstrations reach roughly 1,500 operations per hour, compared with a stated human benchmark of 600.
Learn With Experts
Join a focused 20–30-person team with backgrounds connected to MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, DeepMind, Microsoft, and Boston Dynamics. The company emphasizes trust, freedom, and diverse intellectual perspectives.
Grow With Strong Backing
Eka has raised $150 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, following a reported $11 million seed round. That capital supports scaling customer deployments and turning frontier research into industrial systems.
Create Real-World Impact
Work on automation for manufacturing, electronics assembly, logistics, warehousing, food packing, and delicate produce handling. Eka is already conducting undisclosed industrial pilots, bringing its technology closer to real production environments.
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Vision-Force-Action Model
Eka's core AI and control system combines visual perception, force feedback, and robot actions for contact-rich manipulation. It helps robots adapt to slipping objects, misalignment, changing friction, and delicate items.
Force-Aware Robotic Hands
Custom robotic hands and grippers provide force sensing alongside mechanical manipulation. This enables more precise handling of varied, fragile, or difficult-to-align objects.
Simulation Reinforcement Learning
Eka trains manipulation policies in large-scale physics simulation using reinforcement learning, domain randomization, and sim-to-real transfer. The approach generates varied contact and failure scenarios before deployment on physical robots.
Dexterous Manipulation Systems
Integrated robotic systems perform picking, packing, insertion, assembly, wire handling, and other contact-rich industrial tasks. Publicly reported applications include manufacturing, electronics assembly, logistics, warehousing, and food packing.
Deployment Engineering
Eka combines hardware, software, simulation, control, and customer deployment engineering for industrial pilots. Its systems are being evaluated in undisclosed pick-and-place, pick-arrange-place, and wire-handling applications.