Skild AI trains a football-playing robot via 140 years of self-play in virtual World Cup
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-25
Robotics company Skild AI showed off a robot trained to play football using self-play equivalent to 140 years in a virtual World Cup, dubbed the #Messinator. Retweeting it, researcher Deepak Pathak called self-evolution a key path toward professional-level sports intelligence and praised the results.
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