Tuesday, May 5, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“We’re building intelligence for the physical world in its native language: forces.”

— Pulkit Agrawal, MIT professor and Eka Robotics cofounder

While most robotics startups are training their bots by watching humans fold shirts, Eka is teaching its machines to feel mass, friction, and inertia in simulation, betting that physical intelligence can’t be reverse-engineered from pixels. When an entire industry is racing the same playbook, the breakthrough usually belongs to whoever’s still asking whether it’s the right one. For more, Check out the article When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers.

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Chad