
Pulkit Agrawal
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Co-Founder @EkaRobotics, Faculty @MIT
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Eka Robotics, Inc. has raised a $150M Series A. Generality v/s Performance is the fundamental tension at the frontier of robotics. Generality without performance is just a prototype. Performance without generality is just a single-purpose tool. Customers shouldn’t have to choose. Eka breaks the tradeoff. Powered by our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, we deliver the performance and versatility customers need to put robots to work every day. Eka is built on three convictions: ⚡️Force is the language of manipulation. 🚀 Reinforcement learning is how dexterous manipulation scales. 🎂 System 1—fast, reliable physical execution—is the bottleneck to solve. With this funding, we will scale our model and accelerate customer deployments. Grateful to be building alongside a dream team and investors who share our ambition.
Pulkit Agrawal128,361 görüntüleme • 10 gün önce

Eka means unity -- “one,” in Sanskrit and “first” in Finnish. We’re building intelligence for the physical world in its native language: forces. Until now, robotics faced a tradeoff — generality or speed. The real world requires both. Robotics also faced a data problem. Our Vision–Force–Action (VFA) model — the first of its kind — breaks the generality-speed tradeoff and the data barrier. It's a new foundation uniting performance, generality, and safety for putting capable robots in everyone's hands. Today, I am excited to share our journey of pushing robots beyond human limits. Today, dexterity becomes scalable. Today, I welcome you to the Era of Eka. Co-founded with Tuomas Haarnoja, and so thrilled and grateful to be working with a dream team at Eka Robotics, Inc.. Learn more:
Pulkit Agrawal349,682 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Taking humanoid soccer out of the lab: no instrumentation, no controlled environment. Real fields, around people. Trained in simulation. Deployed in reality. No post-training. Just pre-training. Dribbling. Passing. Turning. Scoring goals. Work led by Avi, Khai, Nolan Fey along with Martin Peticco John Marangola, and Venki.
Pulkit Agrawal19,156 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

🚀 Introducing SoftMimic: Compliant humanoids for an interactive future — bringing humanoids into the real world 🤝 🔗 Current humanoids collapse when they touch the world — they can’t handle contact or deviation from their reference motion 😭 😎SoftMimic learns to deviate gracefully from motion references. It natively embraces contact and forces — enabling safer, more robust robots that generalize better and interact gently. Work led by Gabe Margolis Michelle and Nolan Fey
Pulkit Agrawal40,337 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

DexWrist got an upgrade! Robots with wrists can do so much more! Kudos to Martin Peticco John Marangola
Pulkit Agrawal15,752 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Presenting Unsupervised Actuator Nets (UANs) that push the limits of agile whole-body control without the need for reward shaping! ⚡️ UANs reduce the sim2real gap in robot's motors removing the need for reward design to bridge the sim2real gap. ⚡️ A pre-trained whole-body controller uses reference motion as a hint to maximize task performance! Learn more: Work led by Nolan Fey , Gabe Margolis in collaboration with Martin.
Pulkit Agrawal11,196 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
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