Skild's Robot Plays Football After 140 Years of Virtual Self-Play
JitendraMalikCV · x · 2026-09-24
Skild AI unveiled the #Messinator, a robot trained to play football via self-play equivalent to 140 years in a virtual World Cup. Berkeley professor Deepak Pathak amplified the demo, arguing that the only AGI on Earth emerged from billions of years of physical self-play—robots will be no different, the method scales, and "we will scale it."
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