{"id":"f2bc0384-8344-4e6f-9b04-4bf9ddf37004","name":"Skild AI","slug":"skild-ai","description":"American robotics-AI company (Pittsburgh, founded 2023 by former Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta) building the 'Skild Brain' — an omni-bodied foundation model designed to control any robot (quadruped, humanoid, arm, mobile manipulator) without per-body retraining, trained on human video and physics simulation. Raised a ~$1.4B round (Jan 2026, led by SoftBank, with NVIDIA's NVentures, Bezos Expeditions, and others) at a ~$14B+ valuation; total funding reported >$2B. Builds the robot brain, not hardware.","status":"private","founded":2023,"hq":"Pittsburgh, PA, USA","fundingTotal":"2000000000","type":"brain","reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.skild.ai/","label":"Skild AI — company website","title":"Skild AI — company website","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"Skild AI","publishedAt":"2026-01-01"},{"url":"https://techfundingnews.com/robotics-unicorn-skild-ai-grabs-1-4b-to-build-a-universal-brain-for-every-robot/","label":"TFN — Skild AI raises $1.4B for universal robot brain","title":"TFN — Skild AI raises $1.4B for universal robot brain","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"Tech Funding News","publishedAt":"2026-01-15"}],"aliases":["Skild"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-25T20:16:53.182Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-25T20:18:17.990Z"}