AI 2026-09-24· AI Engineer (YouTube)
Deepak Pathak (Skild AI) on Why Robotics Has Been Stuck for 70 Years
Deepak Pathak, co-founder of Skild AI and CMU professor, argues that robotics has stagnated for decades because it was approached as a hardware challenge rather than a 'general brain' problem. He contends that current methods of data collection for robots are insufficient to scale to AI models like GPT-3. Skild AI's thesis is to develop one brain that can operate any robot for any task.
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