Skild AI: Omni-Bodied Robot Brain Passes US$100m ARR
Skild AI Co-Founder and CEO, Deepak Pathak, is scaling the Skild Brain robotics foundation model past US$100m ARR with ABB, NVIDIA and Foxconn
TL;DR
- Skild AI has surpassed US$100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) within ten months of its first commercial deployment.
- The Skild Brain is a foundation model designed to enable robots to control diverse machinery without prior specific training.
- The company trains its foundation model across numerous robotic platforms simultaneously, promoting dynamic adaptation.
- Skild AI partners with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) like ABB Robotics and Universal Robots to embed its software directly into machines.
- The company acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics division, formerly Fetch Robotics, to strengthen its warehouse footprint.
- Key customers include Foxconn, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, and Mitsui & Co., utilizing the technology for tasks ranging from screw insertion to wire harness assembly and food preparation.
- The Skild Brain leverages simulation, with the team pretraining a unified model on approximately 100,000 simulated robots.
- The company's flagship S1 model, launched in August 2026, combines NVIDIA AI hardware with algorithms that learn operations from single video demonstrations.