Company · Skild AI 12 items

One-line positioning: A Pittsburgh-based embodied-AI company arguing that robot intelligence should not be sliced by body type or task, building one unified brain model that drives any robot on any task.

Key facts: Founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, former professors at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Bengaluru. Has raised over USD 2 billion in total: a USD 300 million Series A in July 2024, a Series B in 2025, and close to USD 1.4 billion in January 2026 at a post-money valuation above USD 14 billion, led by SoftBank Group with NVentures (Nvidia) and Bezos Expeditions participating.

Products & tech: Its flagship Skild Brain is described as the industry's first unified robotics foundation model. It is omni-bodied: it can control quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms and mobile manipulators without prior knowledge of a robot's exact body form. The model learns by watching human videos and supplements training with physics-based simulation. In August 2026 the company released S1, a general robot model that uses in-context learning to execute never-trained 10-minute tasks from a single human demonstration, with no fine-tuning.

Market position: Delivers through three robot application platforms covering security and inspection, mobile manipulation, and autonomous packing. With Nvidia and Foxconn it deploys Skild Brain on dual-arm manipulators for high-precision assembly of Nvidia Blackwell systems; it also runs pilots with Sumitomo Wiring Systems on wire-harness automation and with Mitsui & Co. in commercial kitchens, and in April 2026 acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics automation business.