Skild trains soccer-playing humanoid via 140 years of virtual self-play
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-24
Skild AI showed off "Messinator", a humanoid robot trained to play soccer using self-play equivalent to 140 years in a virtual World Cup.
Quote-tweeter Kevin Gmelin frames this as a consumer-robot product thesis: few would pay $20k for a robot that only does laundry or dusts, but monthly software updates shipping entirely new skills—soccer one month, landscaping or pool cleaning the next—could make versatility the real value driver. He pegs a skill-adjustable soccer humanoid at at least $5k of personal value.
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