Brain
Skild AI's unified omni-bodied foundation model. Designed to control any robot without prior knowledge of body form (quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators). Trained on online human videos and physics simulations across thousands of form factors. Built-in force-limiting safety constraints. Skild AI builds the robot brain, not hardware; platform strategy is to power other companies' robots.
Foundation model · Maturity: Commercial · Closed
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /brains/skild-brain.md
- RSS feed: /brains/skild-brain/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/brains/b4727a2c-55f4-4fb1-baa6-ee3d3a2fe94e
- Revision history: /brains/skild-brain/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Architecture
Unified 'omni-bodied' foundation model controlling any robot form without prior body-form knowledge (quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators). Trained on online human videos plus physics simulations across thousands of form factors. Built-in force-limiting safety constraints.
Key facts
- DEPLOY maturity rationale
- Early commercial, scaling; recorded as commercial. $30M 2025 revenue cited as commercial validation
- Founded
- 2023 by ex-CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta
- Valuation
- $14B as of January 2026 (up from $1.5B July 2024)
- Total funding reported
- >$2B
- Backers
- Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank, Bezos Expeditions, Sequoia, Amazon
- Platform strategy
- Powers others' robots; does not build own hardware
- Ecosystem
- Part of NVIDIA Isaac ecosystem
- Powered-models flagged
- Cross-embodiment across multiple robot types; no single anchor model in registry yet
Developed by (1)
Common questions
- What is Skild Brain?
- Skild AI's unified omni-bodied foundation model. Designed to control any robot without prior knowledge of body form (quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators). Trained on online human videos and physics simulations across thousands of form factors. Built-in force-limiting safety constraints. Skild AI builds the robot brain, not hardware; platform strategy is to power other companies' robots.
- Who developed Skild Brain?
- Skild Brain is credited to Skild AI on the DEPLOY registry. Each developer attribution is verified via primary sources.
- Is Skild Brain open source?
- No. Skild Brain is recorded as proprietary on the DEPLOY registry. Model weights and source are not publicly available.
- What type of AI is Skild Brain?
- Skild Brain is a foundation model, built on a Unified 'omni-bodied' foundation model controlling any robot form without prior body-form knowledge (quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators). Trained on online human videos plus physics simulations across thousands of form factors. Built-in force-limiting safety constraints. architecture on the DEPLOY registry.
- What is Skild Brain's maturity stage?
- Skild Brain is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder. Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.
- Which robots run on Skild Brain?
- No robot models on the DEPLOY registry are recorded as running Skild Brain. DEPLOY wires brain-to-model connections only when the wiring is verifiable from primary sources; absence may reflect pre-deployment or unverified manufacturer claims.
Sources (4)
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-05-30
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-05-30
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Skild Brain.Canonical ID b4727a2c-55f4-4fb1-baa6-ee3d3a2fe94e