SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI
SoftBank is negotiating an investment of $ 500 million in Skild AIA software company that builds a fundamental model for robotics on a rating of $ 4 billion, reported Bloomberg and Financial Times.
The two -year -old company raised its earlier $ 300 million financing round at a rating of $ 1.5 billion last July from investors, including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue Management.
The AI model of the company can be applied to different types of robots, the founders of Skildak Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta told WAN last July. They said the generalized model can be changed for a specific domain and use case.
The intersection of Robotics and AI has witnessed a significant importance of investors.
In the past year, investors, in particular Bezos, have raised their financing to AI-driven robotics companies.
Physical intelligence, a startup that $ 400 million picked up With a $ 2 billion pre-Money appreciation in November, another startup claims to develop ‘brain’ for a wide range of robots. Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital and Thrive Capital led that round.
Last February, Figure AI, a startup, raised an AI-driven humanoid robot, $ 675 million with a rating of $ 2.6 billion from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Jeff Bezos (via Bezos Expeditions).
