Robotics software maker Skild AI is valued at $14 billion

Skild AI, which makes basic models of robots, appears to have more than tripled its value in just seven months.

The startup has raised a $1.4 billion Series C round, valuing it at more than $14 billion. Bloomberg reported. The round was led by SoftBank, and Nvidia, Macquarie Group, 1789 Capital and others also invested.

Bloomberg reported that Skild AI last raised $4.5 billion in funding the previous summer. The company did not reveal the exact value of that round, but it was It is rumored to be around $500 million But Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak told Bloomberg that the company has now raised more than $2 billion to date.

TechCrunch has reached out to Skild AI for more information about the fundraising history, and we will update this article when we hear more.

Founded in 2023, Skild AI builds general-purpose robotics programs and basic models that can be tweaked and tweaked to suit a variety of different robots and tasks without requiring a lot of additional training. The hope is that these models can also learn from watching humans perform tasks.

There’s been a big push recently toward this type of robotic software that relies on learning on the go, along with the growing hype around humanoid robots.

One of the biggest obstacles to robot adoption in both personal and industrial use cases is the enormous amount of training required for robots to learn each new task. The ability to learn and adapt as they go would pave the way for greater adoption of robots.

Field AI is another startup looking to build Easy to adapt bots. 1X, new robot maker, only Universal model released In pursuit of the same goal.