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MEKAWIRE has published 67 stories about Skild AI since Jan 7, 2025; the latest is from Oct 14, 2026.

Data as of Oct 14, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 7, 2025

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Oct 14, 2026

Stories about Skild AI

Robotics funding from mid-September to mid-October 2026: chips, data and safety took the private money while humanoid makers turned to stock markets
Date
Oct 14, 2026
Type
Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
AMD pays about $8.2B in stock for World Labs, 2026's priciest robotics and physical-AI deal, for a lab with no disclosed revenue
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
M&A
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it
Date
Sep 28, 2026
Type
Product
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video
Date
Sep 10, 2026
Type
Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million
Date
Sep 8, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss
Date
Sep 4, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model
Date
Sep 3, 2026
Type
Partnership
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS
Date
Aug 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Generalist's GEN-1.5 learns robot tasks from a single 3 to 12 second demonstration, reaching 59% without fine-tuning
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Market
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Date
Jul 30, 2026
Type
Product
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in
Date
Jul 21, 2026
Type
Funding
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE
Date
Jun 24, 2026
Type
M&A
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet
Date
Jun 10, 2026
Type
Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
Date
Jun 1, 2026
Type
Product
Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US
Date
Apr 27, 2026
Type
Funding
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
M&A
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch
Date
Mar 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%
Date
Mar 20, 2026
Type
Funding
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Date
Mar 12, 2026
Type
Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
M&A
Rhoda AI leaves stealth with a $450 million Series A to run factory robots on a model that learns from internet video
Date
Mar 10, 2026
Type
Funding
Robot Era raises CNY1 billion from Samsung, Singtel and others, pushing its valuation past CNY10 billion
Date
Mar 5, 2026
Type
Funding
Physical Intelligence pitches its π models as a shared robot brain, with Weave and Ultra as first proof at 96.4% autonomy
Date
Feb 24, 2026
Type
Partnership
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026
Date
Feb 4, 2026
Type
Funding
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink
Date
Jan 28, 2026
Type
Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections
Date
Jan 21, 2026
Type
Product
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot
Date
Jan 14, 2026
Type
Funding
1X puts a 14-billion-parameter video model in charge of its NEO home humanoid, trading robot data for internet video
Date
Jan 12, 2026
Type
Product
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
1X will offer up to 10,000 NEO humanoids to EQT's 300-plus portfolio companies by 2030, sending its home robot into industry
Date
Dec 11, 2025
Type
Partnership
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain
Date
Nov 20, 2025
Type
Funding
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line
Date
Nov 19, 2025
Type
Product
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion
Date
Nov 6, 2025
Type
Business
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data
Date
Nov 4, 2025
Type
Research
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers
Date
Oct 28, 2025
Type
Industry
1X puts a price on the home humanoid, opening NEO pre-orders at US$20,000 or US$499 a month with US deliveries in 2026
Date
Oct 27, 2025
Type
Product
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA
Date
Oct 8, 2025
Type
M&A
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price
Date
Sep 16, 2025
Type
Funding
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work
Date
Sep 15, 2025
Type
Funding
FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body
Date
Aug 20, 2025
Type
Funding
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike
Date
Jul 29, 2025
Type
Product
Genesis AI raises $105 million seed from Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robot brain on its own simulation engine
Date
Jul 1, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours
Date
May 19, 2025
Type
Product
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 cleans kitchens and bedrooms in homes it never saw in training, with 97.6% of its data from other sources
Date
Apr 22, 2025
Type
Research
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid
Date
Feb 13, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA opens its Cosmos world models to robot and car makers at CES 2025, with Figure, Agility, XPENG and Uber among the first users
Date
Jan 7, 2025
Type
Product

Headline	Date	Type
Robotics funding from mid-September to mid-October 2026: chips, data and safety took the private money while humanoid makers turned to stock markets	Oct 14, 2026	Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Anthropic finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on just 0.3% of work	Sep 30, 2026	Research
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
AMD pays about $8.2B in stock for World Labs, 2026's priciest robotics and physical-AI deal, for a lab with no disclosed revenue	Sep 28, 2026	M&A
NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it	Sep 28, 2026	Product
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video	Sep 10, 2026	Business
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million	Sep 8, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss	Sep 4, 2026	Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model	Sep 3, 2026	Partnership
Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise	Aug 28, 2026	Funding
NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS	Aug 24, 2026	M&A
Generalist's GEN-1.5 learns robot tasks from a single 3 to 12 second demonstration, reaching 59% without fine-tuning	Aug 19, 2026	Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings	Aug 19, 2026	Market
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control	Jul 30, 2026	Product
London's Humanoid raises $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation as Schaeffler and Bosch buy in	Jul 21, 2026	Funding
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor	Jul 20, 2026	Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE	Jun 24, 2026	M&A
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4 billion in Series C as Tether, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch and the EIB back Germany's physical AI bet	Jun 10, 2026	Funding
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain	Jun 1, 2026	Product
Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US	Apr 27, 2026	Funding
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it	Apr 15, 2026	M&A
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch	Mar 24, 2026	M&A
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%	Mar 20, 2026	Funding
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes	Mar 12, 2026	Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body	Mar 11, 2026	M&A
Rhoda AI leaves stealth with a $450 million Series A to run factory robots on a model that learns from internet video	Mar 10, 2026	Funding
Robot Era raises CNY1 billion from Samsung, Singtel and others, pushing its valuation past CNY10 billion	Mar 5, 2026	Funding
Physical Intelligence pitches its π models as a shared robot brain, with Weave and Ultra as first proof at 96.4% autonomy	Feb 24, 2026	Partnership
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026	Feb 4, 2026	Funding
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink	Jan 28, 2026	Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Microsoft enters the robot model race with Rho-alpha, a Phi-based model that adds touch and learns from human corrections	Jan 21, 2026	Product
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot	Jan 14, 2026	Funding
1X puts a 14-billion-parameter video model in charge of its NEO home humanoid, trading robot data for internet video	Jan 12, 2026	Product
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
1X will offer up to 10,000 NEO humanoids to EQT's 300-plus portfolio companies by 2030, sending its home robot into industry	Dec 11, 2025	Partnership
Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain	Nov 20, 2025	Funding
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line	Nov 19, 2025	Product
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion	Nov 6, 2025	Business
Generalist AI's GEN-0 claims robotics' first scaling laws, trained on 270,000 hours of real-world manipulation data	Nov 4, 2025	Research
NVIDIA pitches factory digital twins and Thor robot computers as the toolkit for US reindustrialization, enlisting Foxconn, Siemens, FANUC and four robot developers	Oct 28, 2025	Industry
1X puts a price on the home humanoid, opening NEO pre-orders at US$20,000 or US$499 a month with US deliveries in 2026	Oct 27, 2025	Product
SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA	Oct 8, 2025	M&A
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price	Sep 16, 2025	Funding
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work	Sep 15, 2025	Funding
FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body	Aug 20, 2025	Funding
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike	Jul 29, 2025	Product
Genesis AI raises $105 million seed from Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robot brain on its own simulation engine	Jul 1, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours	May 19, 2025	Product
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 cleans kitchens and bedrooms in homes it never saw in training, with 97.6% of its data from other sources	Apr 22, 2025	Research
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid	Feb 13, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA opens its Cosmos world models to robot and car makers at CES 2025, with Figure, Agility, XPENG and Uber among the first users	Jan 7, 2025	Product

Data as of Oct 14, 2026

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