Robotics startup Skild AI hits 60+ paying customers and $100M ARR in ten months
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-11
Felicis investor James Detweiler hails robot company Skild AI: 60+ paying customers and $100M ARR in ten months, with most revenue already from manipulation use cases.
- "Physical AI has a demo disease. The cure is deployment."
- Real-world customers demand accuracy, speed, adaptability, and fast learning of new tasks — insights that shaped the S1 model and its in-context learning approach
- Deployment isn't downstream of robotics research; it is itself a research frontier
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