Skild AI, a robotics startup backed by tech titan Amazon (AMZN) and Japanese investment firm SoftBank (SFTBF), introduced a new AI model that is designed to work on almost any type of robot, according to Reuters. The model, called Skild Brain, allows robots to move, balance, and react to their surroundings in ways that are closer to how humans operate. Its release comes as more companies try to create humanoid robots that can handle multiple tasks instead of being limited to single functions, which is common with today’s factory machines.
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In demonstration videos, robots using Skild Brain climbed stairs, stayed upright after being pushed, and picked up objects in messy environments. The company said the model also includes built-in power limits so that robots do not apply unsafe levels of force. Interestingly, to train the system, Skild uses a mix of simulated events, human-action videos, and data collected from robots already running the software. Co-founders Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta told Reuters that this solves a major problem in robotics: unlike language or vision AI, there is very little training data for robotics available on the internet.
As a result, robots deployed by customers send back performance data to Skild, which helps improve the model by creating what Gupta described as a “shared brain” for all robots using it. While robotics takes longer to scale than software because it requires physical deployment, Skild’s approach helps robots quickly gain new skills across industries. It is also worth noting that the firm raised $300 million in a Series A funding round last year that valued it at $1.5 billion.
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