Skild AI, headquartered in Pittsburgh, said it has raised $1.4 billion in investment funding.
Led by SoftBank with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Macquarie Capital (entities administered by Macquarie Capital), and Jeff Bezos (via Bezos Expeditions), the investment will help the company further its mission to build a single, general-purpose brain that can control any robot for any task. Funding featured investments from Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit, Salesforce Ventures, Disruptive, 1789 Capital, IQT, TF Capital, Andra Capital, Palo Alto Growth Capital, KIC, Alpha Square, Mirae Asset, and Destiny.
The company said its goal of omni-bodied intelligence would be the industry’s first unified robotics foundation model that generalizes across tasks and robot hardware to control any robot without prior knowledge of its body form, including quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, and mobile manipulators. Founded in 2023, the company said it has built a unique data infrastructure that allows the Skild Brain to learn from pre-training and post-training which includes four sources – large-scale simulation, Internet Videos, teleoperation and real-world deployments.
“This new capital will be used to massively scale up each of the data sources above. We will double down on our foundational research on model architectures, algorithms, and data collection. Crucially, we will focus on real world deployments that generate economic value,” the company said.