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Skild AI shows the Skild Brain learning skills from videos of humans
Skild AI demonstrated its foundation model learning new tasks mostly from human videos, requiring less than an hour of robot-specific data. The approach escapes the robot-data bottleneck: teleoperation is slow to scale, while human instructional video is abundant.
- Model learns from internet-scale video (instructional, egocentric) rather than teleoperated demonstrations.
- Omni-bodied training across ~100,000 simulated robot morphologies enables transfer to unseen body types.
- Under 1 hour of robot data needed per task, versus 50–100 hours of teleoperation in prior approaches.
- Bridges embodiment gap: human movements map to different robot kinematics (arms, quadrupeds, mobile bases).