Skild AI has operations both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and San Francisco, CA. The company is a developer of developer of AI robotics designed for physical work. Skild AI has closed a $300 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group, and Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), with participation from Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, Amazon, SV Angel, and Carnegie Mellon University. The funding brings the company to a valuation of $1.5 billion.

Skild’s model serves as a shared, general-purpose brain for a diverse embodiment of robots, scenarios and tasks, including manipulation, locomotion and navigation.

Deepak Pathak is a Co-Founder of Skild AI and has been Carnegie Mellon University professor.