Skild AI Expands Robotics Footprint With NVIDIA and Major OEM Alliances

New updates have been reported about Skild AI.

Skild AI is deepening its push into general-purpose robotics by expanding collaborations with NVIDIA, ABB Robotics, and Teradyne Robotics’ Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, positioning its Skild Brain foundation model as a shared AI layer across multiple robot platforms. The company plans to ship its robot intelligence into production, including controlling dual-arm systems for high-precision assembly on Foxconn-operated NVIDIA Blackwell GPU lines, signaling a shift from pilots to revenue-generating industrial deployments.

At the core of Skild AI’s strategy is its omni-bodied Skild Brain, designed to run any robot on any task by learning from data rather than manual programming, creating a compounding data flywheel as deployments scale and feed back operational experience. To build this generalized robot intelligence, Skild AI uses NVIDIA’s open robotics stack, including Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, and the Newton physics engine, to simulate vast amounts of robot experience, then fine-tunes models with real-world data and augments it using NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models, before deploying inference on NVIDIA Jetson-powered hardware.

By integrating Skild Brain into ABB and Universal Robots portfolios, Skild AI aims to enable manufacturers and SMBs to automate more dynamic, variable workflows without task-specific coding, expanding automation into non-traditional and highly flexible production environments. Executives from NVIDIA, ABB Robotics, and Universal Robots emphasized that this model-based approach could unlock the next phase of robotics adoption, from advanced manufacturing to broader industrial use cases.

Skild AI’s leadership frames robotics as approaching an inflection point similar to the early days of large language models, with advances in hardware, simulation, and large-scale training making general-purpose robot intelligence commercially viable. Today’s expanded partnerships and the initial Foxconn–NVIDIA Blackwell deployment mark a key milestone in converting Skild AI’s technology into real-world economic impact, with potential upside in recurring software revenues, broader OEM integrations, and increased stickiness across industrial customers as the data flywheel accelerates.