Eka's Robot Picks Things Up by Feel. It Hasn't Run a Factory Year Yet.
Eka Robotics raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation for a robot arm that grasps by force and touch rather than mainly by sight. Experts who've seen it are impressed. But it's in private pilots, not general release, and its gripper is rated for a quarter of the cycles industrial arms are expected to last.