Skild AI

• S1

  Skild Brain

• Customer site

  2026-03-16 - Skild AI deployed its robot model at a Foxconn facility in Houston for Nvidia Blackwell server assembly workflows. - single named manufacturing facility - Foxconn Houston facility

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• S1 with G1

  Research Experiment - Controlled By - A Unitree G1 played a physical football match using a Skild S1-derived policy post-trained through simulated self-play.

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Supply chain relationships

• Robotiq

  Inbound - End Effectors - Robotiq supplies robotiq 2f 85 for skild brain for Skild AI Skild Brain

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• Universal Robots

  Outbound - Software - Skild AI announced plans to integrate Skild Brain into Universal Robots cobots

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• ABB Robotics

  Outbound - Software - Skild AI supplies Skild Brain general-purpose robot intelligence for ABB Robotics industrial robot portfolio

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• 2026-01-14 - Series C - $1 - Skild AI raises a major funding round
• 2026-01-14 - Series C - $1.4B - Skild AI raises $1.4 billion Series C at valuation above $14 billion

  valuation: > $14B - 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. - source: skild.ai

• 2026-01-14 - 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. - source: techcrunch.com

• 2025-06-12 - 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. - source: bloomberg.com

• 2025-06-12 - Series B - $135M - Skild AI Series B reported at US$4.5B valuation

  valuation: ~ $4.5B - Later reporting identified a completed Skild AI Series B at a US$4.5 billion valuation, while published accounts did not agree on the transaction size. - source: news.crunchbase.com

• 2024-07-09 - 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. - source: skild.ai

• 2024-07-09 - Series A - $300M - Skild AI raises $300 million Series A at $1.5 billion valuation

  valuation: $1.5B - 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. - source: skild.ai

• SoftBank Group - Lead - Angel / Individual - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
• Bezos Expeditions - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
• Coatue - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
• CommonSpirit - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-12 - latest 2026-01-14
• Lightspeed Venture Partners - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-07-09 - latest 2026-01-14
• Salesforce Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-12 - latest 2026-01-14
• Schneider Electric - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-12 - latest 2026-01-14
• 1789 Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Alexa Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• Alpha Square - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-07-09
• Andra Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Carnegie Mellon University - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• CRV - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• Destiny - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Disruptive - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Felicis - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Felicis Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• General Catalyst - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• IQT - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• LG - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-01-14
• LG Technology Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-06-12
• Macquarie Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Menlo Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• Mirae Asset - Participant - Investment Firm - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• NVentures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-01-14
• NVIDIA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
• Palo Alto Growth Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• Samsung - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-06-12
• Sequoia - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• Sequoia Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14
• SV Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-09
• TF Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-14

• 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.

• Skild AI publishes physical self-play result with humanoid transfer

  2026-09-23 - Research Publication - The S1-based policy was rewarded for scoring rather than for hand-designed dribbling or tackling behaviours. Dribbling, shielding, tackling and recovery emerged as the policy competed against successive versions of itself in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. Skild says it is extending the same post-training approach to everyday robot tasks beyond sport.

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• Skild AI publishes S1 in-context robot learning model

  2026-08-18 - Research Publication - S1 applies in-context learning to seen and unseen manipulation tasks, including plant potting, pancake preparation, pour-over coffee and kit assembly. Skild reports unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes and a sevenfold improvement over language-only prompting on its evaluation set. The official release demonstrates transfer from a human video example to robot execution, including an 11-minute demonstration-to-execution plant-potting workflow.

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Events

• 2026-09-23 - Research Publication - Skild AI publishes physical self-play result with humanoid transfer

  The S1-based policy was rewarded for scoring rather than for hand-designed dribbling or tackling behaviours. Dribbling, shielding, tackling and recovery emerged as the policy competed against successive versions of itself in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. Skild says it is extending the same post-training approach to everyday robot tasks beyond sport.

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• 2026-09-09 - Market Signal - Skild AI crosses $100M annual revenue run rate

  Mobility contributes 10% of revenue, while solutions inherited from Fetch Robotics contribute 4%. Skild Brain is being deployed with NVIDIA and Foxconn on dual-arm manipulators assembling NVIDIA Blackwell systems. S1 is being prepared for wire-harness automation at Sumitomo Wiring Systems and piloted with Mitsui & Co. in commercial kitchens.

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• 2026-08-18 - Research Publication - Skild AI publishes S1 in-context robot learning model

  S1 applies in-context learning to seen and unseen manipulation tasks, including plant potting, pancake preparation, pour-over coffee and kit assembly. Skild reports unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes and a sevenfold improvement over language-only prompting on its evaluation set. The official release demonstrates transfer from a human video example to robot execution, including an 11-minute demonstration-to-execution plant-potting workflow.

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• 2026-07-28 - Deployment - ABM pilots Skild-powered inspection robot with CenoBots cleaners at LaGuardia

  The quadruped monitors environmental conditions and identifies operational issues such as trash accumulation. CenoBots autonomous scrubbers and vacuums operate alongside the inspection robot in the pilot. The programme is an evaluation pilot at Terminal B, not a confirmed permanent or airport-wide deployment.

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• 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 humanoid systems in real-world environments. The companies will explore integrating The Skild Brain into VinDynamics humanoid robots, with additional discussions around software, model, hardware development, and potential scale manufacturing.

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• 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 for training and deploying its AI systems. SKILD AI said the acquisition is aimed at combining orchestration software with robot fleets to move toward fully autonomous warehouse operations.

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• 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 intelligence across factory floors.

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• 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

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• 2026-01-14 - Funding - Skild AI raises a major funding round
• 2026-01-14 - Funding - Skild AI raises $1.4 billion Series C at valuation above $14 billion

  SoftBank led the round, with NVentures, Macquarie Capital and Bezos Expeditions among the participants. Strategic investors included LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit and Salesforce Ventures, alongside returning investors Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue and Sequoia. Skild AI said live revenue grew from zero to about $30 million during 2025, with deployments spanning security, construction, delivery, data centres, warehouses and factory assembly.

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• 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 foundation models adaptable to various robots and tasks.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 firms, including LG, Hanwha, and Mirae Asset, also participated, each contributing between $5 million and $10 million.

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• 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 firms, including LG, Hanwha, and Mirae Asset, also participated, each contributing between $5 million and $10 million.

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• 2025-06-12 - Funding - Skild AI Series B reported at US$4.5B valuation

  Bloomberg reported that SoftBank led the Series B, with planned US$25M and US$10M investments from NVIDIA and Samsung, respectively. Crunchbase later reported the Series B at US$135M and a US$4.5B valuation. Skild AI is building an omni-bodied robotics brain designed to operate different robot bodies across tasks.

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• 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 XPENG Robotics are adopting the NVIDIA Isaac platform. AeiRobot, Lightwheel, Foxlink, and NEURA Robotics are early adopters of GR00T N models; Foxconn and Foxlink use GR00T-Mimic blueprints for manufacturing.

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• 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 model for robotics.

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• 2024-07-09 - Funding - Skild AI raises $300 million Series A at $1.5 billion valuation

  Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions led the round. Participants also included Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, SV Angel, Carnegie Mellon University, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and the Alexa Fund. Skild AI said the capital would support continued development of its robotics foundation model and expansion of its team.

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Relationships

• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

  Technology Partner - Skild AI is working with Sumitomo Wiring Systems toward deploying S1 for wire-harness manufacturing automation.

• 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.

• ABB Robotics

  Integrates With - Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics to integrate Skild Brain into industrial robot portfolios.

• Mitsui & Co.

  Deployment Partner - Skild AI and Mitsui & Co. are piloting S1-powered general-purpose robots in commercial kitchens in Japan.

• Foxconn

  Factory Deployment - Deployment at Foxconn facility for Nvidia Blackwell server assembly work

• Zebra Robotics

  Robotics Automation Business Successor - Skild AI acquired Zebra Technologies robotics automation business on 27 March 2026.

• Fetch Robotics

  Acquired Company - Skild AI acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics division, formerly Fetch Robotics.

• Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)

  Generalized Robot Intelligence Partnership - Skild AI and Mobile Industrial Robots are partnering to expand deployment of Skild Brain across industrial robotics applications.