Skild AI Expands Generalized Robot Intelligence Across Industries

Partnerships with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA aim to deploy Skild's AI-powered robot brain across manufacturing and beyond

Mar. 17, 2026 at 1:40am

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Skild AI, a pioneer in building generalized robot intelligence, announced expanded collaborations with NVIDIA, ABB Robotics, and Universal Robots to deploy its AI-powered Skild Brain across multiple industries and applications. The company's technology is set to be integrated into production environments, including high-precision assembly for NVIDIA Blackwell systems with Foxconn.

Why it matters

Skild AI's mission is to bring AI into the physical world through its general-purpose robotics foundation model, enabling a powerful data flywheel where the brain can combine data from different robot deployments to continuously improve itself. This partnership with major robotics OEMs aims to accelerate the large-scale deployment of Skild Brain, shifting from programming individual tasks to building systems that can learn and adapt on their own.

The details

Skild AI's omni-bodied AI brain offers a fundamentally different approach from conventional industrial robots, which must be carefully programmed by human experts for each specific task. Skild's technology learns directly from data, leveraging NVIDIA's open robotics platform, Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim, to create physically accurate simulations and generate synthetic data to improve robustness. Once trained, the generalized robot brain runs on NVIDIA Jetson systems for real-time, low-latency AI inference on deployed robots.

  • Skild AI announced the expanded collaborations on March 16, 2026.

The players

Skild AI

A pioneer in building generalized robot intelligence for any embodiment, with a mission to bring AI into the physical world through its Skild Brain technology.

NVIDIA

A technology company that provides open robotics platforms, including the NVIDIA Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim, which Skild AI leverages to create physically accurate simulations and generate synthetic data.

ABB Robotics

A leading industrial robotics company that is integrating Skild AI's generalized robot intelligence into its portfolio to enable more autonomous and versatile robotics for flexible and efficient manufacturing.

Universal Robots

A robotics company that is working with Skild AI and NVIDIA to bring advanced AI capabilities to its collaborative robots, enabling them to handle more dynamic, variable tasks across industries.

Foxconn

An electronics manufacturing company that is partnering with Skild AI to deploy the company's omni-bodied brain to control dual-arms on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU production lines, performing complex assembly operations.

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What they’re saying

“Robotics is at an inflection point similar to where LLMs were a few years ago. Advances in hardware, simulation, and large-scale AI training are making general-purpose robot intelligence possible. By training an omni-bodied intelligence that transfers skills across embodiments and environments, we're shifting from programming tasks to building systems that continuously learn and improve, even during deployment.”

— Deepak Pathak, CEO of Skild AI (midvalejournal.com)

“Physical AI is transforming the world's largest industries. Built on NVIDIA's open robotics platform and accelerated computing, Skild AI's generalized robot brain demonstrates how foundation models trained in simulation can be deployed on real robots at scale.”

— Deepu Talla, Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA (midvalejournal.com)

“At ABB Robotics, we see more autonomous and versatile robotics (AVR™) as the enabler for the next era of flexible and efficient manufacturing. Integrating Skild AI's generalized robot intelligence into our portfolio will help customers scale industrial-grade automation more quickly and address increasingly complex applications scenarios across a broad range of industries.”

— Marc Segura, President, ABB Robotics (midvalejournal.com)

“Universal Robots was founded to make automation simple and accessible. Working with Skild AI and NVIDIA allows us to bring advanced AI capabilities to our cobots — enabling them to handle more dynamic, variable tasks across industries.”

— Jean-Pierre Hathout, CEO, Universal Robots (midvalejournal.com)

What’s next

Skild AI is planning to ship its omni-bodied brain to Foxconn to control dual-arms on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU production lines, performing complex assembly operations.

The takeaway

Skild AI's partnerships with major robotics players like NVIDIA, ABB Robotics, and Universal Robots demonstrate the potential for generalized robot intelligence to transform manufacturing and other industries by enabling more adaptable, continuously learning automation systems that can handle complex, dynamic tasks without the need for extensive programming.