A robotics AI company building a general-purpose robot 'foundation model' that lets many different types of robot hardware learn and perform physical tasks.
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General-purpose foundation models for robotics -- a roughly 1,000x valuation increase in under 3 years (seed to Series C) reflects the embodied-AI/humanoid-robotics hype cycle. Heavy strategic-investor participation (NVIDIA, SoftBank, Samsung, Amazon/Bezos) looks more like corporate positioning than pure financial investing, which raises correction risk if commercial deployment lags. No priced round found since the Jan 2026 Series C; the higher $16.9B secondary mark likely reflects organic appreciation (a Sept 2026 milestone of ~$100M ARR and 60+ paying customers, up from 8 earlier in the year) and the April 2026 acquisition of Zebra Technologies' Robotics Automation business (an equity-funded deal, not a new priced round) rather than a new financing.
No notable non-founder leadership on record for Skild AI yet.
Low: Revelio Labs, Mar 2026. High: Tracxn, Jul 2026.
As of 2026-09-13 · live via greenhouse's public job board · ≈55.1% of the 106–119 estimated team
Skild AI is building the Skild Brain, one foundation model meant to control many robot bodies rather than one. The company says pre-training uses large-scale simulation and internet video, and post-training uses targeted real-world data. Its S1 manipulation model takes the task as a video demonstration at inference time, with no weight updates.
| Date | Type | What |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | Milestone | NVIDIA said S1 was built on NVIDIA infrastructure |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Milestone | Company post on S1, a manipulation model given the task as a video demonstration; early-access sign-up, but no paper, weights or API |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Milestone | Company reports S1 at 96 percent on seen and 66 percent on unseen long-horizon tasks, against 9 percent for a language-prompted baseline on unseen |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Acquisition | Zebra Technologies Robotics Automation business (former Fetch Robotics; Symmetry Fulfillment platform) |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Milestone | Announced partnerships with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, and dual-arm assembly work with NVIDIA and Foxconn |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Milestone | Company says it has security, construction, delivery, data-center, warehouse and factory-assembly deployments |
| Sep 28, 2025 | Milestone | LocoFormer paper posted on arXiv and accepted to CoRL 2025: a locomotion controller that adapts to unseen robot bodies and motor failures |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Milestone | Company post describes training across 100,000 simulated robots |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Milestone | Company post describes a two-level design: a low-frequency high-level policy feeding a high-frequency policy that outputs joint angles and torques |
| 2025 | Paper | LocoFormer: Generalist Locomotion via Long-context Adaptation |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Milestone | Left stealth |
| 2023 | Milestone | Founded, according to the company's own blog; based in Pittsburgh |
Skild AI is a Pittsburgh robotics-software company; its own blog says it was founded in 2023, and Deepak Pathak is chief executive and Abhinav Gupta president. It left stealth on July 9, 2024 with a $300 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions. It is building one 'omni-bodied' foundation model, the Skild Brain, meant to control many robot bodies rather than one. A July 29, 2025 company post described a two-level design: a low-frequency high-level policy for manipulation and navigation feeding a high-frequency low-level policy that outputs joint angles and motor torques. The same post says pre-training uses large-scale simulation and internet video, and post-training uses targeted real-world data.
The published research record is one paper. LocoFormer (arXiv, September 28, 2025; accepted to CoRL 2025; all three authors listed with Skild AI affiliation) trains a locomotion controller by reinforcement learning on procedurally generated legged and wheeled robots with heavy domain randomization, and extends the policy's context across episode boundaries so it adapts to unseen bodies and to motor failures at test time. A September 24, 2025 company post describes training across 100,000 simulated robots. On August 18, 2026 the company published a post on S1, a manipulation model built as an in-context learner: the task is given as a video demonstration at inference time with no weight updates. The company reports 96 percent on seen long-horizon tasks and 66 percent on unseen tasks at 100,000 hours of pre-training data, against 9 percent for a language-prompted baseline on unseen tasks, with tasks up to 10 minutes long. The post offers an early-access sign-up; no paper, weights or API accompanied it. NVIDIA said on September 10, 2026 that S1 was built on NVIDIA infrastructure.
Announcing a $1.4 billion Series C on January 14, 2026 (led by SoftBank, with NVentures, Macquarie Capital and Bezos Expeditions), the company said live revenue went from zero to about $30 million within 2025 across security, construction, delivery, data-center, warehouse and factory-assembly deployments. On March 19, 2026 it announced partnerships with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, and work with NVIDIA and Foxconn on dual-arm assembly of NVIDIA Blackwell systems. NVIDIA's September 10, 2026 post states that Skild reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate 10 months after its first commercial deployment; that figure has not been audited or filed anywhere public. On April 15, 2026 Skild acquired Zebra Technologies' Robotics Automation business, the former Fetch Robotics, including the Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Zebra said it received cash and an equity stake in Skild; amounts were not disclosed.
The July 2025 post cites earlier academic papers by team members from before the company; those are not company publications and are not listed here.
Profile as of Sep 19, 2026.
| Round | Date | Valuation | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2026-01-14 | $14.0B+211% | SoftBank Group (also NVentures/NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital entities, Jeff Bezos, Disruptive, 1789 Capital, IQT, and returning Lightspeed/Felicis/Coatue/Sequoia) |
| Series B | 2025-06-12 | $4.5B+200% | SoftBank Group ($100M of the $135M total; NVIDIA $25M and Samsung $10M made up the rest -- these three checks sum exactly to the disclosed round size) |
| Series A | 2024-07-09 | $1.5B | Four-way co-lead: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group, and Jeff Bezos/Bezos Expeditions (also Felicis, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, Amazon, SV Angel, Carnegie Mellon University) |
No upcoming rounds currently reported.
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| Status | S-1 Not Filed |
|---|---|
| Timing | at least 3 years away (marketplace speculation) |
| Notes | No CEO statement or tier-1 reporting on IPO plans; likely too early-stage. |
| Source | Forge Global / EquityZen / Nasdaq Private Market commentary, 2026 (secondary-market speculation, not company guidance) |
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