Skild AI trains a football-playing robot with 140 years of self-play in virtual World Cup
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-25
Robotics company Skild AI unveiled 'Messinator,' a robot trained to play football via roughly 140 years of cumulative self-play in a virtual World Cup environment. Commenters including Deepak Pathak noted that the scale of experience generable in simulation is now enormous — the real challenge is making simulated worlds physically representative enough for skills to transfer to reality (sim2real).
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