Skild AI
FeaturedGeneral purpose intelligence for robots.
Founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Skild AI was created by two of the most influential robotics researchers in the world — both professors at Carnegie Mellon University who have published foundational work on robot learning, curiosity-driven exploration, and sim-to-real transfer. Skild raised $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in 2024 backed by Jeff Bezos, SoftBank, Lightspeed, and Felicis Ventures. The company's mission is to train a foundation model for robotics at the same scale as GPT-4 was trained for language — creating a general intelligence that can be adapted to any robot hardware and any physical task.
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Deepak Pathak
Founder / CEO
Deepak Pathak is the co-founder and CEO of Skild AI. He is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the most cited researchers in robot learning, best known for his seminal work on curiosity-driven reinforcement learning and self-supervised robot training. He co-founded Skild to translate years of academic robotics research into the world's first general-purpose robot foundation model, backed by an extraordinary group of investors who believe robotics is the next frontier of AI.
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