Eka Robotics bets on force, not language, to teach robots dexterity
Pulkit Agrawal, Co-Founder of Eka Robotics. Image souce: Agrawal’s website.
Eka Robotics has emerged from stealth with a Vision-Force-Action model that it says can push robots beyond the long-standing trade-off between generality and speed in manipulation tasks. The Cambridge, Massachusetts startup was co-founded in 2025 by MIT’s Pulkit Agrawal and former DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. The deep tech entrepreneurs are pitching force sensing and simulation as the route to more capable machines.
In robotics, much of the recent excitement has centred on vision-language-action systems, which…
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