Company record
Skild AI
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Skild AI is building a single 'omni-bodied' AI brain meant to control any type of robot for any task. skild.ai
Funding
- $1.4B Series C, announced January 14, 2026. Led by SoftBank Group. Sources: businesswire.com.
Whether AI names Skild AI
- On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 27 of 49 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 6 of 8, Claude 4 of 8, Perplexity 5 of 8, Gemini 5 of 8, Copilot 3 of 8, Google AI Mode 3 of 8, Google AI Overviews 1 of 1). See the map. Of the 53 companies on the map, Skild AI ranked 3rd by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Physical AI questions: Figure (38 of 49), Physical Intelligence (28 of 49), Agility Robotics (26 of 49), Unitree (26 of 49), 1X (23 of 49) and Apptronik (23 of 49). Most often named in the same answers: Figure (24), Physical Intelligence (24), Unitree (18), 1X (17), Agility Robotics (14).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Skild AI in each weekly sample of Presspool's Physical AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | Physical AI |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 20 of 38 |
| October 5, 2026 | 27 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 28 of 53 |
| October 19, 2026 | 28 of 54 |
| October 26, 2026 | 27 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 27 of 49 |
Sources AI cites when it names Skild AI
Presspool asked its 8 Physical AI questions on November 2, 2026; 27 of the 49 answers named or cited Skild AI, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 27 answers cited most:
- nvidia.com: 6 of 27 answers
- openai.com: 6 of 27 answers
- crunchbase.com: 5 of 27 answers
- opencurious.com: 5 of 27 answers
- roboticscenter.ai: 4 of 27 answers
- blackscarab.ai: 3 of 27 answers
- cbinsights.com: 3 of 27 answers
- embodiedglobal.com: 3 of 27 answers
- figure.ai: 3 of 27 answers
- neuralchainai.com: 3 of 27 answers
Related records
Also on the Physical AI map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agile Robots, Agility Robotics, Aleph, Apptronik, ASI, Astribot, Bedrock Robotics, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics and 40 more on the map.
SoftBank Group, which led this round, is named as an investor in ASI ($225 million, round type not disclosed, September 24, 2026).