Robotics Foundation Models
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Physical Intelligence (π) is building general-purpose foundation models designed to control any robot, backed by over $1 billion in funding and a team drawn from Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. As one of the most heavily capitalized startups in embodied AI, its trajectory has significant implications for the future of robotics.
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Skild AI is building a general-purpose foundation model for robots — the 'Skild Brain' — designed to work across different robot bodies and deployment environments. Spun out of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and now valued at over $14 billion, the company sits at the intersection of foundation-model AI and physical-world automation.