Skild AI
Skild AI develops general-purpose robot intelligence for physical-world tasks. Its work focuses on an omni-bodied robotics foundation model that can adapt across different robot types, tasks and environments rather than being locked to one robot design.
Market context
Represents the shift toward shared intelligence layers in robotics, where learning and capability are decoupled from specific hardware systems.
Facts
- Website: https://www.skild.ai
- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Founded: 2023
- Segment: Foundation Models
- Known funding rounds: 6
Investors
- Coatue - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
- General Catalyst - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
- Lightspeed Venture Partners - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
- SoftBank Group - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2025-06-12
- Greylock - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
- Sequoia Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
- CommonSpirit - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
- LG Technology Ventures - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-06-12
- NVIDIA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
- Salesforce Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
- Samsung - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-06-12
- Schneider Electric - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
- Alexa Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-07-09
- Bezos Expeditions - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- Carnegie Mellon University - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- CRV - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- Felicis Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- Menlo Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- Sequoia - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
- SV Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
General-purpose robotics foundation models for multiple robot forms
Skild AI develops general-purpose robot intelligence software intended to operate across different robot embodiments. Public coverage describes Skild Brain as a model for multi-purpose robots trained from simulation, human action video and real-world robot data.
- Target environment: Industrial robotics, humanoid systems, warehouse automation, mobile robots, manipulation systems and robot-learning development environments.
- Deployment model: AI infrastructure model built around robotics foundation models, customer deployment data, robot partnerships and software that can be applied across multiple physical systems.
- Customer context: Robot builders, warehouse automation operators, industrial customers, AI partners and organizations deploying robots that need adaptable control intelligence.
- Workflow context: Robot foundation models, manipulation learning, locomotion-adjacent control, warehouse automation, cross-embodiment learning, simulation-to-real transfer and shared robot intelligence.
- Commercial maturity: Skild has major financing, robotics AI talent and visible product-model direction. Scaling depends on general-purpose performance across deployed robots, customer integration, safety and repeatabili…
- Market position: Robotics foundation-model company positioned in the shared intelligence layer above individual robot platforms.
- Adoption constraints: Robot data scarcity, model safety, hardware variation, deployment reliability, customer integration, compute cost and repeatable performance across tasks and embodiments.
- Adjacent context: Robotics foundation models, embodied AI, robot learning, warehouse automation, humanoids, mobile robots and manipulation.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-06-08 - Partnership - VinDynamics and Skild AI sign MOU to advance humanoid robotics and embodied AI - VinDynamics and Skild AI signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to collaborate on humanoid robotics and embodied AI. The collaboration scope covers embodied AI research, robot manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, edge AI deployment, and validation of h…
- 2026-04-15 - Acquisition - SKILD AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics division (formerly Fetch Robotics) - SKILD AI announced the acquisition of Zebra Technologies' robotics division, which includes the former Fetch Robotics autonomous mobile robot portfolio. The deal expands SKILD AI's access to deployed warehouse robots and real-world operational environments fo…
- 2026-03-19 - Partnership - Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and NVIDIA to deploy Skild Brain across industrial robots - Skild AI announced partnerships with ABB Robotics and Teradyne Robotics Universal Robots to integrate its omni-bodied Skild Brain into industrial and collaborative robot portfolios The company framed the work as a route to deploy generalized robot intelligenc…
- 2026-03-16 - Deployment - Skild AI model deployed at Foxconn facility for Nvidia Blackwell server assembly - Skild AI deploys its robot model in robots at a Foxconn facility in Houston The deployment supports Nvidia Blackwell server assembly workflows The move marks early commercial deployment with software tie-ins to industrial robot ecosystems
- 2026-01-14 - Funding - Skild AI raises a major funding round
- 2026-01-14 - Funding - Skild AI Raises $1.4B Series C Led by SoftBank - Skild AI secured $1.4 billion in Series C funding, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion. The funding round was led by SoftBank, with participation from NVIDIA, Macquarie Group, and others. Skild AI develops general-purpose robotic software and foundatio…
- 2026-01-13 - Capability - Skild AI model learns new robot skills by watching human videos - Learns new skills from human videos, addressing the robotics data bottleneck. Generalizes tasks to unseen environments, enhancing adaptability in dynamic settings. Enables diverse robot forms to acquire skills, expanding operational capabilities.
- 2025-07-29 - Product Launch - Skild AI introduces Skild Brain general-purpose robot foundation model - Skild AI introduced Skild Brain as a general-purpose robotics model intended to operate across different robot bodies and tasks The model is trained from simulation, human action videos and real-world robot data.
- 2025-06-12 - Funding - Skild AI raises $500M Series B to scale its robotics foundation model - Skild AI raised a $500M Series B to scale development and deployment of its general-purpose robotics foundation model. The round included SoftBank, NVIDIA, Samsung, LG and other strategic investors. The financing followed Skild 300M Series A in July 2024 and…
- 2025-06-12 - Market Signal - NVIDIA and Samsung invest $35M in Skild AI funding round - • NVIDIA invested $25 million and Samsung invested $10 million in Skild AI during its Series B funding round. • The round was led by a $100 million commitment from Japan's SoftBank Group, valuing Skild AI at approximately $4.5 billion. • Other South Korean fi…
- 2025-06-12 - Funding - NVIDIA and Samsung invest $35M in Skild AI's Series B round - • NVIDIA invested $25 million and Samsung invested $10 million in Skild AI during its Series B funding round. • The round was led by a $100 million commitment from Japan's SoftBank Group, valuing Skild AI at approximately $4.5 billion. • Other South Korean fi…
- 2025-05-19 - Partnership - NVIDIA powers humanoid robot industry with Isaac GR00T platform adopted by Agility, Boston Dynamics, Fourier and others - NVIDIA released Isaac GR00T N foundation models enabling humanoid robots to perform complex manipulation tasks via natural language commands. Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Fourier, Galbot, Mentee Robotics, NEURA Robotics, General Robotics, Skild AI, and…
- 2024-07-09 - Funding - Skild AI raises $300M Series A to build robotics foundation model - Skild AI announced a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions to develop a scalable AI foundation model for robotics The company said the funding would support development of a scalable AI foundation mode…
- 2024-07-09 - Funding - Skild AI raises $300M Series A to build robotics foundation model - Skild AI announced a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions to develop a scalable AI foundation model for robotics. The company said the funding would support development of a scalable AI foundation mod…
Team
- Deepak Pathak - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Abhinav Gupta - Co-founder and President - Co-founder shaping Skild AI's robot-learning and general-purpose robotics intelligence direction.
Supply chain relationships
- NVIDIA - Integration - Skild AI adopts NVIDIA Isaac platform for humanoid development
- Universal Robots - Integration - Skild AI partners with Universal Robots to integrate Skild Brain into collaborative robot portfolios.
- ABB Robotics - Integration - Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics to integrate Skild Brain into industrial robot portfolios.
- VinDynamics - Embodied AI And Humanoid Robotics Technology Partner - VinDynamics and Skild AI signed an MOU on embodied AI, robot manipulation, sim-to-real transfer and edge AI.
Relationships
- Amazon - Investor - Amazon invested in Skild AI, a startup building general-purpose robot foundation models and physical AI intelligence.
- NVIDIA - Investor - NVIDIA participated in a funding round for Skild AI, a robotics foundation model company building generalist robot intelligence.
- SoftBank - Investor - SoftBank participated in a funding round for Skild AI alongside NVIDIA and Samsung.
- Zebra Technologies - Acquired Company - Skild AI acquired Zebra's robotics division to expand warehouse automation and deployed fleet orchestration.
Customers and deployments
- Named Customer Site - Skild AI model deployed at Foxconn Houston for Blackwell server assembly - 2026-03-16 - Foxconn / Nvidia - robot model for server assembly - Skild AI deployed its robot model at a Foxconn facility…
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