Skild AI S1

Skild AI S1 is the flagship robotic foundation model unveiled on August 18, 2026 by the startup Skild AI. It is built as an in-context learner: it translates a single in-context video demonstration of a desired task into robot actions, without requiring fine-tuning or post-training at deployment. S1 can perform novel, previously unseen manipulation tasks up to about 10 minutes long, and shows robustness to scene perturbations and object substitutions, along with common-sense reasoning and error recovery. Demonstrated tasks include plant potting, pancake cooking, pour-over coffee making, and kit assembly — all from a single video prompt. The model was pre-trained on episodic data where the task is specified only through an in-context demonstration, combining teleoperation data, egocentric video, and simulation. S1 is built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure.