Skild AI

A US company building a cross-robot general foundation model, Skild Brain, without making its own robot hardware.

Skild AI is a US company founded in 2023, headquartered in Pittsburgh with an additional team in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its founders, Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, are both robotics professors at Carnegie Mellon University. The company builds only the “brain,” not the robot body: it introduced Skild Brain in July 2025, a single model that can control quadrupeds, humanoids, robot arms, and mobile manipulators, trained mainly on large-scale simulation and internet video; in August 2026 it released S1, which can perform a new task after watching just one demonstration video. In January 2026, it raised $1.4 billion in funding led by SoftBank with participation from NVIDIA and others, at a valuation of more than $14 billion; the company says it generated about $30 million in revenue over a few months in 2025, already deployed in security, warehousing, and factory-assembly settings.

ExampleIn a Skild Brain demo, a quadruped robot that lost part of one leg adjusted its gait within seconds and kept walking.

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Skild

Related

Skild Brain · Skild S1 · Cross-Embodiment · Robot-Brain (Model-only) Company · One Brain, Multiple Robots · In-Context Learning

Sources

Skild AI Series C
Skild AI | LinkedIn
Skild S1

As of

2026-08