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Deepak Pathak
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously Carnegie Mellon University
UC Berkeley
Scalable robotics foundation model trained on diverse data, providing a shared brain for manipulation, locomotion, and navigation across many robot embodiments.
Scalable robotics foundation model trained on diverse data, providing a shared brain for manipulation, locomotion, and navigation across many robot embodiments.
Skild AI was founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta to build a single general-purpose foundation model — the Skild Brain — that can power any robot. The pair, both prolific robot-learning researchers, had spent years pushing self-supervised manipulation, locomotion and navigation, and concluded that scaling a shared model across diverse embodiments and tasks would unlock truly capable robotics. The company emerged from stealth in July 2024 with a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation.
Skild AI completed a transaction for Zebra Technologies' Robotics Automation Business in April 2026, extending its reach into industrial deployments.
Skild AI closed a $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank with NVIDIA's NVentures, Bezos Expeditions, Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric and Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at over $14B.
Round includes NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (Bezos Expeditions), Macquarie Capital, LG, Schneider Electric, and Salesforce Ventures. Brings total raised to over $2B since 2023 founding.
CEO Deepak Pathak outlines the vision for a single foundation model that can control any robot for any task, noting Skild has grown from zero to $30M revenue in its first year.
Skild AI raised $1.4B at a $14B+ valuation, dramatically scaling its robotics foundation model effort.
Technical blog detailing Skild Brain's training data strategy across simulation, video and teleoperation.
Davos-period interview with CEO Deepak Pathak on Skild's technical bet and competitive positioning vs. humanoid-only labs.
Profile of Skild AI's Skild Brain foundation model and its approach to cross-embodiment learning.
Skild AI emerged from stealth with a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank and Jeff Bezos to build a general-purpose foundation model for robots.
Company blog post announcing Series A and outlining the vision of a single foundation model that can power any robot.
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously Carnegie Mellon University
UC Berkeley
Co-Founder
Previously Carnegie Mellon University
$1.7B raised total