Robot Foundation Models
Large pretrained models adapted to robot control — cross-embodiment transfer, data scaling laws, and generalist manipulation policies.
Coverage (7 articles)
- 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
- Physical Intelligence Eyes $1B Raise at Over $11B Valuation — Physical Intelligence is in early talks for a roughly $1 billion funding round that could value the San Francisco startup above $11 billion. The move nearly dou
- 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
- NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 VLA Model Ships with Human Video Pretraining — NVIDIA has released the Isaac GR00T N1.7 VLA foundation model under Apache 2.0. The update adds pretraining on 32,000 hours of human video plus 8,000 hours of s
- 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