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  "id": 15747095,
  "title": "Eka Robotics, which is developing a \"vision-force-action\" architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/eka-robotics-which-is-developing-a-vision-force-action-architecture",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-20T13:15:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/eka-is-worth-1-45-billion-thanks-to-a-physical-ai-model-that-has-experts-raving/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Robots still aren't that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models.",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/amazon-pledges-to-spend-16b-in-germany-in-2027-on-aws-and-ai-data",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:10:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "EU-Startups",
        "title": "Germany’s NEURA Robotics shows no signs of slowing down as it teams up with Austria’s NXAI for physical AI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/germanys-neura-robotics-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-down-as-it-teams-up",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:53:48.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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