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Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (Pathak Research Group)
United States
Skild AI, a 2023 CMU spin-off co-founded by Pathak and Gupta, raised a $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank in January 2026 at a valuation above $14B to build a general-purpose robot foundation model.
AffiliationCarnegie Mellon University
CountryUS
TypeAcademic
Research areasdexterous manipulation, legged locomotion, humanoid learning, foundation models
Flagship contributionDeveloped RMA (Rapid Motor Adaptation), an algorithm trained entirely in simulation and deployed without fine-tuning on a real A1 quadruped robot for real-time terrain adaptation.
Key peopleDeepak Pathak (Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute ; CEO de Skild AI), Abhinav Gupta (Professor, Robotics Institute ; co-fondateur et président de Skild AI), David Held (Associate Professor), Katerina Fragkiadaki (Associate Professor)
Open outputsCode de RMA et travaux dérivés publiés en open source (GitHub) ; publications RSS/CoRL en accès arXiv.
CityPittsburgh
Sources : CMU Robotics Institute (2026-07)arXiv (RSS 2021) (2021-07)The Robot Report (2026-01)
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