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Force Intelligence: A Path to General Dexterity

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Explore force intelligence as a path to general dexterity. Eka Robotics Co-Founder Pulkit Agrawal discusses contact-rich manipulation, learning from force, and building robots that handle the physical world beyond vision alone. Presented at Actuate, Foxglove's annual robotics developer conference.

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Pulkit Agrawal, Co-Founder, Eka Robotics

Pulkit Agrawal is the co-founder of Eka Robotics, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His work in robotics, self-supervised and continual learning has received multiple Best Paper Awards, the IEEE Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation, the IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award, the RSS Early Career Spotlight Award, the IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award, the Sony, Salesforce, and Amazon Research Awards, the Signatures Fellow Award, and the Fulbright Science and Technology Award. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a bachelor's from IIT Kanpur, where he was awarded the Director's Gold Medal. He previously co-founded SafelyYou Inc which reduces falls in people with Dementia by 40%.

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