Skild AI unveils S1 flagship robot foundation model

- Skild AI dropped S1, a robot foundation model that pulls off something wild: feed it a video of a human doing a task, and the robot just *does it*. No fine-tuning, no post-training marathon. Whoa, that's mega-illegal levels of cool. The model pretrains on four data sources — teleoperation, human videos, simulation, and data-capture gloves — because, as co-founder Deepak Pathak puts it, there's no golden path