Skild AI
Builds the Skild Brain, a general-purpose robotics foundation model meant to run on many robot types.
About
Skild AI develops the Skild Brain, one robotics foundation model intended to handle many tasks across different robot hardware. It was founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta and operates from Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Key stats
- Latest funding
- $1.4B
- Total funding
- $1.7B
- Last disclosed valuation
- $14B
- Founded
- 2023
- Country
- United States
Latest roundsAll rounds
- Jan 14, 2026Series C$1.4B
- Jul 9, 2024Series A$300M
RivalsAll rivals
- Physical IntelligenceDirect rival
Robot foundation model
Recent newsAll news
- AnalysisSkild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
- IndustryWhat is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
- ResearchAnthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work
- ProductRunway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
- FundingGeneral Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act