Eka 凭物理 AI 模型获 1.45 亿美元估值，专家称其灵巧操作超预期
原标题：Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
AI 摘要
Eka Robotics 完成 1.5 亿美元 A 轮融资，由 a16z 和 F-Prime 领投，投后估值 14.5 亿美元。该公司由 MIT 教授 Pulkit Agrawal 与前 Google DeepMind 研究员 Tuomas Haarnoja 创立，其核心是视觉-力-动作模型（vision-force-action）与力敏感夹爪，通过物理仿真和强化学习实现灵巧操作，每小时可抓取约 1500 个物体，成功率超过 95%。多位机器人专家称其表现超出预期，a16z 认为其部分任务已超越人类水平。
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Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models. That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a force-sensitive gripper and a new kind of deep-learning model. Founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, the startup just closed an $150 million Series A round that values it at $1.45 billion p