Eka Robotics Secures $150 Million Series A to Advance Vision-Force-Action Model for Robots
Eka Robotics has raised $150 million in Series A funding to scale its vision-force-action (VFA) model, which uses reinforcement learning to develop a physics intuition for robots. The company claims its AI enables robots to handle a wide variety of objects and tasks, such as screwing in a light bulb, with high speed and generality. The funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, will support customer deployments and technology scaling. Eka Robotics, founded in 2024 and based in Cambridge, Mass., focuses on dexterous manipulation, asserting that robots should master physics rather than mimic human data for true general-purpose capabilities.
Why it matters
The funding aims to scale Eka's VFA model, potentially advancing robot dexterity and generalization in real-world applications.
Source: The Robot Report — read the original
Source published 24 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC