- HQ
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Funding
- $1.4B Series C at roughly a $14B valuation
- Website
- www.skild.ai ↗
Skild AI
A robot-agnostic foundation model built to scale across any hardware.
Skild AI is a Pittsburgh-based startup developing the 'Skild Brain', a robot-agnostic foundation model designed to run on any robot hardware. The company raised a $1.4B Series C at a valuation of roughly $14B and has deployed on NVIDIA Blackwell production lines at Foxconn facilities.
The Skild Brain is designed as a single, universal policy that generalises across robot morphologies without per-platform fine-tuning, making it possible to deploy the same model on arms, mobile manipulators, and humanoids. Real-world deployment at Foxconn's NVIDIA Blackwell production lines provides both a commercial proof point and a continuous source of manufacturing data. The combination of large-scale funding and live industrial deployments positions Skild AI as one of the best-capitalised pure-play robot-AI companies. Its Pittsburgh base draws on talent from Carnegie Mellon University's robotics programme.
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Last reviewed: 2026-06-14