Skild AI unveils S1: robot foundation model learns 10-minute novel tasks from a single video prompt
deepakpathak · x · 2026-08-26
Skild AI introduced S1, a new foundation model built around in-context learning:
- Learns tasks it never saw in pre-training from a single video prompt, with no fine-tuning;
- Handles long-horizon tasks over 10 minutes;
- Real-time operation demos were released.
Researcher Deepak Pathak framed it as building intelligence "from the foundations up, not from the top down," declaring that in-context learning for robotics has arrived.
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