Skild AI

Stephanie Zhan

@stephzhan

💥Escape velocity for @SkildAI, defining the frontier of physical AGI 🚀Frontier research 🚀Most powerful talent magnet 🚀Customer obsession, driving real impact in the real world 2.5 years in, 0 to $30M in live revenue in 2025, and decades to go The trajectory is staggering. Excited to be on this journey with you @deepakpathak @gupta_abhinav_!

The Humanoid Hub

@TheHumanoidHub

Skild AI is now worth $14B!! - about 3 times the $4.5B valuation from the last funding round reported to have closed six months ago The company has just announced raising $1.4B in Series C funding at a $14B valuation led by SoftBank, with participation from NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, and Jeff Bezos. Other notable investors include LG, Samsung, and Salesforce Ventures. In 2025, the company grew from zero to approximately $30M in revenue in just a few months. Skild is building an omni-bodied brain to control any robot for any task.

altan tutar

@altantutar

All the venture money in robotics is going to three verticals: 1/ The robot body (Figure, 1X) 2/ The robot brain (Physical Intelligence, Skild AI) 3/ The infrastructure around the brain, mainly data collection, simulation, pre-training stacks If you're now starting a company in any of these three, one of two things has to be true: > You have a PhD from a top-institution in robotics and did world-class research over the last ten years. > You have a sharper insight into what would work, and articulate it very clearly. If none of these are true, you are probably better off spending your time on deployment. Essentially, become the operator who knows what the robot has to do, in what order, against which constraints to earn its position within a vertical. If you can do that, I think there's two clear outcomes: 1/ You build the robot, because your customer insight is so specific that you can only build that robot. 2/ The frontier labs acquire you for the relationship. They have the model. They need the customer. You have built the customer relationship over the years.

Lukas Ziegler

@lukas_m_ziegler

🚨 BREAKING: Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies robotics division! 🤯 @SkildAI acquired the robotics division of @ZebraTechnology (formerly Fetch Robotics) to deploy their omni-bodied brain across warehouses, unlocking massive productivity gains and accelerating their data flywheel. Most warehouse robotics solutions use classical approaches for navigation and routing, but many parts remain human-bottlenecked like moving objects between receptacles. Zebra Technologies brings one of the most battle-tested warehouse robotics platforms in the industry. Their Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform already coordinates tasks between robots and frontline workers using real-time data from Zebra wearable devices, proven in logistics environments where reliability is mandatory. The Skild Brain is an omni-bodied foundation model that generalizes across embodiments without retraining from zero. Quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators—the same underlying model operates all of them. Adding the Skild Brain to Zebra's Symmetry platform means robots don't just follow instructions, actually they make informed decisions. The Symmetry platform will expand beyond its current footprint into new verticals, new use cases, and a wider range of robot form factors. This accelerates Skild's data flywheel, bringing in more diverse data to train the omni-bodied brain. @deepakpathak 🔥 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → https://t.co/GoA3ZuwoPB

mete

@VaderResearch

Robotics takeaways from a16z's latest newsletter 💰 Robotics investments hit ATH in Q1 26 💰 $16B invested across ~455 deals 💰 Largest funding in Q1 26 was @SkildAI's $1.4B round 🦾 Private robotics firms > private fintech firms in mcap 🦾 10yrs ago private robotics firm were rounding error 🦾 Highest profile frontier for robotics is DEFENSE Source: PitchBook & Andreessen Horowitz

Paradis Labs

@ParadisLabs

Robotics is moving so fast. I expect deal value to 10x in the upcoming years. With private capital flowing into companies that can manufacture at scale + win paying customers. Some of the biggest deals so far this year include: -> Saronic (US) w/ $1.75B Series D in March for autonomous naval vessels. -> Skild AI (US) w/ $1.4B round for humanoid software. -> Apptronik (US) w/ $0.94B Series A for industrial humanoids. -> Mind Robotics spun out from $RIVN and raised $0.9B YTD. There'll be plenty of public investment opportunities though. Either by investing upstream in the suppliers that make up humanoid's BOM e.g. in actuators or perception systems. In a similar style to the AI supply chain, going upstream to find where the winners are. Or via pure-play robotics companies selling B2B and B2C once production ramp hits in a year or two.

Deepak Pathak

Co-founder & CEO

Carnegie Mellon robotics professor with a UC Berkeley PhD whose research focuses on robots that adapt to the real world.

Abhinav Gupta

Co-founder & President

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute professor specializing in computer vision and machine learning.

Amelia Green-Vamos

Chief of Staff | Operations & Org

Previously at IVP · San Francisco Bay Area

Joined May 2026

Bohdana Pashuk

Marketing Intern

Previously at Sony · San Francisco, California, United States

Joined May 2026

Richard Colk

senior robotics technician

Previously at LAC Logistics Automation · Shepshed, England, United Kingdom

Joined May 2026

Carter Turk

Robot Operator

Sewickley, Pennsylvania, United States

Joined May 2026