Skild AI

Skild AI, founded by CMU roboticists, builds a general-purpose Skild Brain foundation model that controls diverse robot hardware. Industrial and humanoid makers integrate it rather than building their own. It launched on commercial humanoid and quadruped platforms in 2025.

Ecosystem functionRobot-brain-as-a-service, differentiated by hardware-agnostic deployment across many manufacturers.

Business modelRobot foundation model licensing