Robotics startup Eka raises $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation for its vision-force-action model

Eka, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, raised a $150 million Series A led by a16z and F-Prime for a manipulation system pairing a force-sensitive gripper with a vision-force-action model.