Skild AI

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Skild AI is a Pittsburgh-based robotics-software company building general-purpose robotic intelligence: a unified, omni-bodied AI system intended to control different robot embodiments and perform many physical tasks. Its stated strategy combines foundation-model research with real-world enterprise deployments that generate a data flywheel.

Primary product

Skild Brain, a unified robotics foundation model/AI control layer for quadrupeds, humanoids, arms, mobile manipulators and other robots; application platforms include security/inspection, mobile manipulation and autonomous packing.

Founded

2023

Headquarters

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Team size

70–80 (public LinkedIn/company-profile estimate; 2026)

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Software Development / Robotics / Artificial Intelligence

Sub-industry

General-purpose robotics intelligence and physical-AI foundation models

Offices

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

San Mateo, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Bengaluru, India

Business model

Enterprise robotics software deployments

AI/control-layer licensing or integration with robot OEMs

Robotics application platforms for inspection, manipulation and packing

Commercial deployment partnerships with manufacturers and robotics companies

Funding

Stage

Series C / late-stage venture-backed private company

Total raised

$1.8B

Latest round

Series C · Jan 2026

Latest amount

$1.4B

Series C

Jan 2026 · SoftBank Group

$1.4B

Series B

Jun 2025 · Samsung Electronics and SoftBank Group (reported)

$135M

Series A

Jul 2024 · SoftBank, Coatue and others

$300M

Corporate round / early financing

Jan 2023

People & investors

Leadership

Deepak Pathak

Co-Founder & CEO

Abhinav Gupta

Co-Founder & President

Aditya Raghunathan

Chief of Staff / Head of the Office of the CEO

Investors

Work & culture

Public recruiting material emphasizes a mission-driven, research-oriented and highly collaborative environment, welcoming candidates from new graduates through domain experts and valuing demonstrated ability and attitude. Most listed roles are office-based; public evidence does not establish a complete benefits package.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

No reliable public company-wide compensation bands or complete compensation package were identified. Public job listings confirm substantial hiring across engineering, robotics, research, hardware and operations, but do not provide enough consistent salary evidence for a company-wide estimate.

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be enterprise/custom deployment, integration and/or software licensing rather than self-serve pricing.

Differentiators

—A single omni-bodied brain intended to generalize across robot forms and tasks
—Adaptation to unseen robot bodies and environments with limited additional robot data
—Training from simulation, internet/human videos, teleoperation and real-world deployments
—OEM partnerships intended to distribute the intelligence layer across large installed robot fleets
—Data flywheel in which deployments improve the model

Technology

Robotics foundation models

Omni-bodied learning

Machine learning and deep learning

Computer vision

Reinforcement learning

Robot navigation, planning and controls

Manipulation and perception

Teleoperation data

Large-scale simulation

NVIDIA Isaac Lab

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

NVIDIA Cosmos

Synthetic-data generation

Human-video/observational learning

Real-world robot deployment data

Customers

Foxconn / NVIDIA Blackwell GPU production-line deployment

NVIDIA

ABB Robotics

Universal Robots

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)

Enterprise deployments in warehousing, construction, security/facility inspection, manufacturing and data centers (customer names mostly undisclosed)

Competitors

Figure AI

Agility Robotics

Physical Intelligence

Field AI

Generalist AI

Covariant

Apptronik

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $30M annualized/live revenue in 2025, according to company statements; a cautious public-evidence range is $25M–$50M annualized (not independently audited).

Latest news

Skild AI expands generalized robot intelligence with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and NVIDIA

Skild AI · Mar 2026

Described OEM integration plans and NVIDIA-supported deployment of Skild Brain across industrial and collaborative robots.

Skild AI, Nvidia deploy robot brain on Blackwell assembly lines

Reuters · Mar 2026

Reported an early commercial deployment with Foxconn on NVIDIA Blackwell assembly lines in Houston, alongside partnerships with ABB Robotics and Universal Robots.

Skild AI raises $1.4B and reaches a valuation above $14B

Skild AI · Jan 2026

Skild AI announced its $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank, valuing the company above $14B, and described the Skild Brain, data strategy and enterprise deployment plans.

Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

TechCrunch · Jan 2026

Reported the Series C, valuation increase from the prior round and Skild AI's general-purpose robotics foundation-model approach.

Learning by watching human videos

Skild AI · Jan 2026

Explained the company's approach to using human videos plus limited robot data to scale robotics learning.

Careers Engineering and company blog Greenhouse jobs Instagram LinkedIn company Team/about X / Twitter

SourcesSkild AI homepage Skild AI Series C announcement Skild AI careers / Greenhouse Crunchbase News funding report The Robot Report funding report Skild AI learning-by-watching blog Skild AI ABB/Universal Robots/NVIDIA announcement Reuters deployment report Built In company profile

Open Positions

62 jobs at Skild AI

Technical Recruiter, India

On-site

Operations

Bengaluru, India

6d ago

On-site

Full-time