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1. Oct 20
   Eka Robotics raises $150M for force-sensitive robot manipulation

   Eka Robotics closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, led by a16z and F-Prime. Its Vision-Force-Action model combines vision with force-sensor feedback, while a force-sensitive gripper and reinforcement learning in physics simulation support object manipulation. Eka claims its system can pick 1,500 objects weighing up to 1 kg per hour with greater than 95% reliability, though The Next Web did not verify those figures and unnamed industrial pilots remain underway.

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2. Oct 12
   Honeyjar launches AI comms platform to encode senior PR expertise

   Honeyjar, a startup founded by veteran communications executives Michelle Masek and Nadia Jamshidi, is appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt as part of the Startup Battlefield 200, aiming to make senior-level PR judgment available to founders and others without comms experience. The tool automates drafting announcements, building media lists, finding reporters, tracking coverage and surfacing speaking opportunities, while the company says a human must still hit send or publish. Honeyjar says its waitlist drew 10,000 signups in the first 24 hours, with beta testers including Nextdoor, Coco Robotics, Bloomberg Beta and agencies Mission North and Full Picture, and it is training the product on other PR professionals' judgment through an initiative called Comms Lab.

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