Skild AI hits $100M ARR 10 months after first deployment, argues deployment is robotics' hidden pillar
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-11
Skild AI's Deepak Pathak shares the team article "The Hidden Pillar of Robotics Research is Deployment": the company crossed $100 million in ARR just ten months after its first commercial deployment. The article argues deployment is undervalued in robotics research — real-world deployments generate unique data feedback loops that drive RSI (recursive self-improvement): more deployments → more data and feedback → better models → more deployments.
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