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Skild AI

Skild AI is a Robotics Foundation Models company founded in 2023 and based in Pittsburgh, United States. It has raised $2.2B in total funding, most recently a Series C in 2026 at a $14B valuation.

Skild AI was founded in 2023 by former Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta to build a general-purpose robotics brain. The thesis is that physical AI should be omni-bodied - a single model that controls different robot morphologies and generalizes across tasks - trained on orders of magnitude more robot data than competing efforts. Skild's product suite today covers security and inspection robots in unstructured environments, mobile manipulation, and autonomous packing, all driven by Skild Brain. In July 2024 Skild closed a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank, and Jeff Bezos at a $1.5B valuation, and in April 2025 added another roughly $500M round led by SoftBank, pushing total reported funding past $1.4B. The company has offices in Pittsburgh, the Bay Area, and Bengaluru.

With Physical Intelligence, Skild is one of the two most heavily funded 'robotics brain' pure-plays - if one of them wins broad adoption, the humanoid market collapses into a model-vs-hardware split similar to Android/OEMs.

skild.ai Robotics Foundation Models

United Statesprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$2.2B

last round series c

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

Pittsburgh

United States

Founded

2023

3 years active

Status

Private

Robotics Foundation Models

Latest valuation

Funding history

Total raised

$2.2B

Rounds tracked

1

Latest stage

Series C

Latest valuation

$14B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Apr 1, 2025	Series B	$500M	$4.5B	SoftBank Group

In the news

Products

Skild Brain foundation model for robots
Omni-bodied robotics foundation model that controls any robot without prior knowledge of its exact body form, including quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, and mobile manipulators. The architecture combines a high-level decision-maker with a low-level controller that translates commands into precise joint angles and motor torques. Pre-trained on physics-based synthetic data generation and human videos from the internet—sources almost infinitely more scalable than real-world teleoperation—then post-trained on targeted real-world data. First deployed on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU production lines with Foxconn in 2026, controlling dual robotic arms for complex assembly operations.
Security / inspection robot platform
A quadruped robot platform for security and inspection, powered by the Skild Brain—an omni-bodied foundation model that enables robots to navigate unstructured, dangerous environments. The platform includes specialized software modules for the security and inspection vertical, alongside licensing through cloud-based APIs where customers pay for robot intelligence rather than developing proprietary control systems. Skild's approach enables successful robot deployment on low-cost systems costing $4,000–$15,000, versus conventionally customized systems costing $250,000+.
Mobile manipulation platform
Mobile robot platform powered by Skild Brain that enables development of AI algorithms and applications for robotic manipulation via API. The AI can execute low-level skills like grasping, handover, and navigation on mobile platforms. The foundation model works on quadrupeds, humanoids, table-top, mobile manipulators and more, enabling developers to create robotics applications using simple API calls, facilitating broader access to robotics development. LG CNS, the IT arm of South Korea's LG Group, has partnered with Skild for industrial applications.
Autonomous packing system
Warehouse-scale robotic packing system designed to automate the repetitive work of packing and sorting items using nimble robotic skills. Built on the Skild Brain, the industry's first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot's exact body form, enabling packing coordinated through a unified orchestration layer alongside picking and material movement. Following Skild AI's acquisition of Zebra Technologies' Robotics Automation business and its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform, the system now has infrastructure to deploy and orchestrate entire fleets of Skild Brain-powered robots at enterprise scale.