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Skild AI robots are programmed to address critical labor shortages in areas such as construction and manufacturing
Skilled AI, a prominent robotics startup, secured $300 million in Series A funding, driving its valuation to $1.5 billion. Prominent venture capital firms, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Softbank Group Corp., and Jeff Bezos’s Bezos Expeditions, were the leading investors among others.
Skild AI, established by former Carnegie Mellon University professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, seeks to revolutionize the robotics industry with its cutting-edge "general-purpose brain" for robots. From manipulating complex objects to navigating through challenging environments, this AI technology is equipped to undertake a wide variety of tasks. Skild AI robots are programmed to address critical labor shortages in areas such as construction and manufacturing, which makes it versatile and reliable compared to traditional specialized robot brains. The startup plans to utilize the funding to enhance its foundational robotics AI, expand its team in engineering and operations, and prepare for the commercialization of its technology. Industry experts like Lightspeed partner Raviraj Jain expressed enthusiasm about the success of Skilled AI, pointing to the potential of their AI-embedded robots to achieve unparalleled power and autonomy in a variety of real-world scenarios.
The co-founders of Skild AI affirm their vision of democratizing robots by giving access to their AI brain, similar to OpenAI's model of digital intelligence, thus transforming automation and assisting human labor globally.
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