Aug 25 2026

Skild AI's S1 learns ten-minute robot tasks from a single video, 66% success on unseen tasks

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In-context learning arrives in robotics: one demonstration video replaces roughly 380 task-specific training demonstrations, with deployment starting through ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and MiR.

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