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Skild AI's S1 Turns One Video Into A Trained Robot Skill

Skild AI's S1 Turns One Video Into A Trained Robot Skill

S1 matched a plant-potting demo in 11 minutes and hit 66% success where rival systems manage just 9%.

  • One video demonstration replaces roughly 380 hands-on training examples, saving 50 to 100 hours of data collection.
  • Skild AI already runs a $100 million annual revenue pace, ten months after its first deployment.
  • Foxconn is deploying the system on NVIDIA Blackwell-powered assembly lines under CEO Deepak Pathak's company.

Why it matters: Whoever owns the model that teaches robots a skill from one video owns the labor that skill replaces.

NVIDIA ↗ · Sep 10, 20269/10/26