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The Skild Brain — a unified robotics foundation model for any robot, any task
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Founded: 2023 | Employees: ~150 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC (Series C, $14B+) | Website: https://www.skild.ai
Skild AI was founded in 2023 in Pittsburgh by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, two of the most respected names in embodied AI research — both Carnegie Mellon professors and former Meta AI research leads whose prior work (including path to the 'Grounded Decoding' and world-model research lineages) shaped the field. Their founding bet: the next big AI platform isn't a robot company, it's a foundation model that works across all robots — the 'Android moment' for robotics, where hardware commoditizes and the model layer captures the value.\n\nThe company built the Skild Brain, an omni-bodied foundation model trained on massive, diverse robot data to control any robot for any task — manipulation, locomotion, and beyond — without robot-specific retraining. The approach attracted record capital:
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