# Weekly Robotics #382: Open-source FPGA robot arm controller, quadruped solving Rubik's Cube, and Eka Robotics' $150 million Series A

- Source: Weekly Robotics
- Published: 2026-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/szi39yv9ehy3p2sesz6u159nr
- Original: https://weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-382

## Summary

Excessive Overkill reverse-engineered an open-source FPGA controller for a 3,000-pound robot arm. ETH Robotic Systems Lab taught a quadruped to solve a giant Rubik's Cube, building toward state-of-the-art perception and localization, fine pedipulation, and environmental interaction capabilities. Eka Robotics closed a $150 million Series A to expand its vision-force-action (VFA) model and customer deployments, saying its robots can complete about 1,500 operations per hour.