Jeff Bezos and Softbank Invest $300M In Skild AI Robot Brains: Future of AI?

The last 100 years of technological development is much higher than the previous thousand years. The prime example of this is the developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Until last year, most people had not heard of  AI chatbots, or anyone openly working on building AI robots. However, with the launch of Chatgpt, newer and better projects flooded the market. Skild AI is building one such project and has recently gained a $300M investment from big venture capitalists like Jeff Bezos and Softbank.

With this, Skild AI is the new addition to the companies OpenAI, Anthropic AI, and xAI, working towards AI development.

Skild AI is Building General Purpose, Robot Brain

Skild AI is an AI startup launched in May 2023 and is among the competitors to Open AI. It is led by the ex-professors of Carnegie Mellon University, i.e., Abhinav Gupta and Deepak Pathak. This startup is now working on a general-purpose Robot Brain, an AI model that can be used in any robot. It will allow Robots to perform all the complex and challenging tasks for industries and other needed locations. Robot Brain will be universal, which will eliminate the need to create custom robot software, which usually costs a lot,

As per the Skild AI press release, “These machines could be “quadrupeds mastering adverse physical conditions” or “vision-based humanoids performing dexterous manipulation of objects for complex household and industrial tasks.”

The company is also working towards building an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to develop human-like Intelligence. However, there is no meaning attributed to this term yet, but it is no different from the AI system.

What Will Robot Brain Work?

As clear with its name, Robot Brain is the core Artificial Intelligence model of the robot system, which will allow the robot to perform simple tasks based on its programming. The software is trained for tasks by providing real work data from texts, images, and videos, the way AI chatbots get trained. However, this Robot Brain will be far more advanced as it will be trained for remote control tasks as well as random ones on demand. Per this, the robot might carry a human-like physical movement.

In a recent press release, Abhinav Gupta, the founder, explained it,

With general purpose robots that can safely perform any automated task, in any environment, and with any type of embodiment, we can expand the capabilities of robots, democratize their cost, and support the severely understaffed labor market.

Skild AI’s Robot brain is also supposed to perform random tasks without training. Just the way living organisms like humans have gained the ability to move to perform tasks, the Robot brain will have similar functions. The company wants to create a robot that is far different from that factory-working industrialist machine. These machines have speed and efficiency but lack flexibility.

This is an idea for now, but with this vision, Skild AI has succeeded in getting $300 Million in funding. With this, the startup will be building the first Robot Brain, which might push the AI industry to another level.

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