Former Carnegie Mellon professor who co-founded Skild AI in 2023 with fellow CMU professor Abhinav Gupta. Skild builds a single 'omni-bodied' foundation model — the Skild Brain — meant to control any robot for any task without bespoke retraining, adapting in real time to changes in body or environment. In Jan 2026 Skild raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation (led by SoftBank, with Nvidia, Bezos Expeditions, Samsung, LG, Schneider, Salesforce Ventures), tripling its $4.5B mark in seven months; $2B+ raised to date.