Skild AI
Robot ai company · USA
Pittsburgh startup founded by Carnegie Mellon researchers, building Skild Brain, a general-purpose robot foundation model designed to run across different robot bodies.
Skild AI is a USA-based robot AI maker, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is privately held. Product lines include Skild Brain. It appears in the directory's US Robot Manufacturers (28 companies) list.
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Founded
- 2023
- Ownership
- Private
- Robot types
- Robot AI & foundation models
- Latest round
- Series C — $1.4B at $14B+ valuation (Jan 2026, led by SoftBank)
Products
- Skild Brain
Skild AI coverage
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 11–Sep 18, 2026 — Humanoid hardware upgrades, factory-scale deployment plans, and new service infrastructure dominated robotics news this week. Companies like Toyota, Unitree, Ag
- Skild AI S1 Drives $100M Revenue Run Rate Ten Months In — Skild AI reached a $100 million annual recurring revenue run rate just ten months after its first commercial deployments of the S1 robotic foundation model. The
- Robotics Week in Review: Aug 21–Aug 28, 2026 — Humanoid robots shattered performance records while AI foundation models and massive datasets accelerated real-world deployment. Funding rounds, record shipment
- Skild AI S1 Achieves 10-Minute Tasks from One Video Prompt — Skild AI released its S1 robotics foundation model on August 25, 2026. The model performs unseen long-horizon manipulation tasks up to 10 minutes long after wat
- Skild AI Raises $1.4B for Omni-Bodied Skild Brain Robotics AI — Skild AI closed a $1.4 billion Series C round led by SoftBank at a valuation above $14 billion. The funding supports the Skild Brain, a unified foundation model
- Skild AI's $1.4B Skild Brain: Omni-Bodied VLA Foundation Model — Skild AI closed a $1.4 billion Series C at over $14 billion valuation, led by SoftBank with NVIDIA's NVentures and Bezos Expeditions participating. The funding
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- US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
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