Pre-training robots from videos is one of crucial problems for scaling. MAE or other approaches cannot really learn manipulation driven representations. HRP uses affordance prediction to focus on learning actionable representations!

Wohoo!! Go Skild AI !

Collecting robot interaction data for every task we want to deploy a policy in is impractical. We show that it is possible to leverage off-the-shelf video generation models to infer motion cues for robot manipulation of an unseen task in a novel scene! Checkout thread below

Robotics 🔄 Airbnb 💪How it stated in 2017 (Abhinav Gupta Lerrel Pinto & team from CMU Robotics Institute) 📈How its going in 2025 (Karol Hausman Sergey Levine Chelsea Finn & team from Physical Intelligence)

Thanks Vikash Kumar ...funny that arms/hardware was also very similar .....as if this is 2018 :)

We’ve been building quietly — starting tomorrow, we go live. Here’s a teaser of what we did before Skild AI. It has shaped what’s coming next. 07/29. Stay tuned.

It's time! So excited to finally reveal we have been upto tomorrow. A decade of research starting from early Smith Hall Baxter days culminating into this....

Modern AI is confined to the digital world. At Skild AI, we are building towards AGI for the real world, unconstrained by robot type or task — a single, omni-bodied brain. Today, we are sharing our journey, starting with early milestones, with more to come in the weeks ahead.

This team of the best robotics researchers in the world are building the universal brain to control any robot on any task. A glimpse of what the future will look like:

Skild has been quiet since emerging from stealth in July 2024. They just shared their journey so far, showcasing early milestones. Skild is building toward a single general-purpose, “omni-bodied” robotics foundation model: One Brain – any task, any robot. The Skild Brain

2025 was the year of digital agents 2026 will be the year of physical agents (minus the scaling) Keep eye on Clone and Skild AI

I had the pleasure of visiting the Skild lab in Pittsburgh about a month ago. It’s easily one of the most futuristic places I’ve seen, packed with robots everywhere -- each busy learning, testing, or solving customer use cases. Even humanoids - just about every piece of humanoid

It was pleasure hosting the humanoid hub founder! The real robotics results are live demos.. And yes, these results are just the tip of the iceberg of what is coming out :)

Some really impressive stuff in here, love to see it working on so many different robots as well.

Last year, my ring bearer was a Skild robot. Excited to see how far they've come!!

Don't go after the hype...what looks hard is easy and what looks easy is very hard!! Personally, from what I have seen, this is the most robust and general visual locomotion policy ever.

Thanks Jim Fan for raising this too! I believe so many people have shared dancing and kung fu videos to mislead the progress in this space.

Excited to see @skildai unveiling the world most advanced foundation model for robotics!

We spent 7+ months embedded in this world — talking to founders, engineers, and researchers like Fei-Fei Li, Jim Fan, Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta, Dyna, Physical Intelligence, Shadow Robot, Figure AI, and many others. The consensus: this is the decade robots go mainstream