Skild AI Expands Robot Intelligence with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA

Skild AI has announced expanded collaborations with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA to deploy its AI-powered robot brain across multiple industries and applications, according to a press release.

The company’s Skild Brain system is designed as a general-purpose robotics foundation model capable of controlling different types of robotic hardware without task-by-task reprogramming. The model learns directly from data, combining inputs from various deployments to improve its performance across environments.

Skild AI uses NVIDIA’s open robotics platform, including Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim frameworks, to pretrain its model in large-scale simulations. Once pretrained, the system is fine-tuned with real-world robot data and deployed on NVIDIA Jetson-powered devices for real-time inference.

Through its partnerships with ABB Robotics and Universal Robots, Skild AI will embed its shared intelligence layer into industrial and collaborative robots to support more complex and dynamic manufacturing tasks. The company is also working with Foxconn to integrate the Skild Brain into production lines assembling NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, enabling precise, adaptable automation in advanced manufacturing.