Skild AI trains soccer-playing robot with 140 years of self-play in a virtual World Cup
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-25
Skild AI unveiled the "Messinator," a robot trained to play soccer via self-play totaling 140 years of experience in a virtual World Cup environment. The team says large-scale self-play gives the robot flexible, adversarial-game skills beyond teleoperation or imitation learning, with footage showing it dribbling and shooting on a real field.
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