Marc Rigter

Researcher @SkildAI. Previously: @MSFTResearch @oxfordrobots.

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

I joined Skild AI late last year and we've been making swift progress towards more general robots!

To record these videos we took the robot around town to locations it had never seen before with no prior preparation or planning.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

We’ve all seen humanoid robots doing backflips and dance routines for years.

But if you ask them to climb a few stairs in the real world, they stumble!

We took our robot on a walk around town to environments that it hadn’t seen before. Here’s how it works🧵⬇️

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

We have acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics arm (formerly Fetch Robotics).

This is what happens when orchestration meets intelligence -- a major step toward fully autonomous warehouses.

More robots. More environments. One unified brain.

[Deepak Pathak @pathak2206]

We hosted Prof. Alyosha Efros (UC Berkeley) at @SkildAI! He didn't believe that robots could actually cook eggs reliably. :)
Tested back-to-back 5times without fail! One batch of scrambled eggs every ~2.5mins nonstop. The same model assembles a GPU on a server rack too.

[Santiago @svpino]

Robotics is about to have its LLM moment.

One of the big issues with industrial robots is having to program individual tasks down to the millimeter and hope nothing changes.

Now imagine a foundation model that controls any robot for any task, learning from data rather than being manually programmed.

This could become a flywheel where the more we use the robots, the more data we generate, and the better the robots become.

We have no idea what's coming.

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

Deep learning for manufacturing at @SkildAI - much more robust and scalable than classical robotics

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Nearly every system today, from energy to chips to food, is bottlenecked by scarce human capital.

We are changing that by building AI-powered industries of the future.

Check out Skild Brain robustly assembling GPU racks, a highly precise task, live at #NvidiaGTC.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Nearly every system today, from energy to chips to food, is bottlenecked by scarce human capital.

We are changing that by building AI-powered industries of the future.

Check out Skild Brain robustly assembling GPU racks, a highly precise task, live at #NvidiaGTC.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Robotics is a data problem.

Today, we’re partnering with @ABBRobotics, @Universal_Robot, and @NVIDIARobotics to deploy the Skild Brain across real-world industries from manufacturing to factory lines.

This will help us build the world’s biggest data flywheel for physical AI.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

India, we’re here! 🇮🇳🇺🇸

From one Silicon Valley to another, we’re thrilled to open our newest office in Bengaluru.

[Hannah Bailey @Hannah_LSBailey]

We keep saying China is on a collision course with the US.

But what if China is not heading for war, but running a campaign?

In a new article, Todd Hall and I argue China acts as a global opposition party, using institutions, coalitions, and messaging to win influence.

Link👇

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

@Harrison_Steel That's awesome, congrats!

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Announcing Series C

We’ve raised $1.4B, valuing the company at over $14B

With this capital, we will accelerate our mission to build omni-bodied intelligence 🚀

https://t.co/q0ArkRa8L8

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Let robots clean in peace 🧺🤖✨

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

Superhuman cooking AI achieved (under generous assumptions), by learning from video the way humans do

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Humans learn by watching. Robots should too.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Humans learn by watching. Robots should too.

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Happy Holidays!! 🎄🎄

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

giving our humans (and robots) a break at skildsgiving ‘25

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Proud to partner with NVIDIA and Foxconn to automate @NVIDIA's Houston GPU Factory and drive the next era of American manufacturing!

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

can't catch me now 🏃💨🪚🪚

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

Incredible to watch a single model figure things out on the fly.

If you'd like to chat about this (or anything else related to Skild) I'll be at CoRL this week!

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

We built a robot brain that nothing can stop.

Shattered limbs? Jammed motors? If the bot can move, the Brain will move it— even if it’s an entirely new robot body.

Meet the omni-bodied Skild Brain:

[Skild AI @SkildAI]

Jensen @nvidia just gave our bot a Thor-level upgrade. Pretty sure it is worthy of Mjolnir now. 🔨⚡️

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Truly general-purpose robots must be able to navigate spaces they have never seen before.

⦿ Skild Brain enables end-to-end autonomous locomotion from raw vision and joint inputs, without mapping or pre-planning.

⦿ The model adapts in real time to new terrain such as stairs, gaps, and clutter, reacting instinctively like a human. There is no “stair mode” or “step-over mode”: the transition between walking behaviors is continuous and instinctive.

⦿ A single neural policy supports a wide range of locomotion tasks and can transfer across different robot platforms.