Skild AI

Robotics & Defense

Skild AI open-sources its physics engine, up to 13 times faster than Nvidia's PhysX, in Nvidia's Newton

Steel lands inside NVIDIA's open-source Newton engine and makes fast, mixed-robot simulation free for every rival, including NVIDIA's own GR00T 2 team. What Skild keeps, the brain and its factory deployments, carries a $14 billion valuation on revenue no filing has ever shown.

November 10, 2026three-minute read

Robotics & Defense

Zebra sold its robots to Skild AI at 6.6 cents on the dollar, and the stock nearly doubled anyway

Zebra's 10-Q shows it sold the former Fetch Robotics unit to Skild AI for $20 million in March, against the $301 million it paid in 2021. The stock's doubling came from the scanner and printer core; the robots now sit inside a startup priced above 140 times revenue.

October 18, 2026three-minute read

Robotics & Defense

Free web video matched robot-lab data in Runway's own test, and the weights ship free

Runway's Praxis-1, now running on Standard Bots' RO1 arm, matched the placement accuracy of far costlier teleoperated robot data using ordinary web video, and Runway will release the weights openly. The claim lands on Skild AI's $14 billion valuation, the highest mark in robot foundation models.

October 2, 2026two-minute read

Secondary market

Skild AI open-sources its physics engine, up to 13 times faster than Nvidia's PhysX, in Nvidia's Newton

Zebra sold its robots to Skild AI at 6.6 cents on the dollar, and the stock nearly doubled anyway

Free web video matched robot-lab data in Runway's own test, and the weights ship free

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