Eka Robotics
"The Era of Superhuman Robotics is at Hand"
US robotics startup building a Vision-Force-Action foundation model for general, high-performance, safe physical robots.
Eka Robotics, Inc. is a US robotics and AI company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2025. The company is building intelligence for the physical world using force as its native language, developing a Vision-Force-Action (VFA) foundation model intended to overcome the traditional trade-off in robotics between generality and performance. According to the company, this foundation unites generality, performance and safety, enabling a single model to generalize across objects, tasks and environments while operating fast and reliably and adapting to the unexpected, and to work safely alongside humans in a collaborative, environment-agnostic manner. Eka pursues self-supervised learning, large-scale robot learning, world models, reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer to push robots beyond human limits.
The company is developing a platform aimed at transport robotics and physical automation, drawing on a team assembled from MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as companies including DeepMind, Microsoft and Boston Dynamics. It was co-founded by Pulkit Agrawal, an MIT assistant professor who leads the Improbable AI Lab. Reported funding includes early backing involving the E14 Fund. As a developer of robot-learning foundation models and the control intelligence behind physical robots, Eka Robotics sits squarely within the robotics and embodied-AI value chain, focused on software and algorithms that enable general-purpose, force-aware robotic manipulation and motion.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Vision-Force-Action Model
Foundation model uniting generality, performance and safety for force-aware physical robots.
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United States
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2025
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North America
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