Skild AI's self-play robot soccer trained 140+ sim years with zero demos, hailed as a physical AI AlphaGo moment
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-24
Investor James Detweiler hails Skild AI's latest result: robot soccer learned purely via self-play over 140+ simulated years with zero human demos, calling it "the AlphaGo moment for physical AI." Felicis backed the team (Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta) from the start.
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