SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI

Softbank is discussing for a $ 500 million investment Skilled AIBloomberg and the Financial Times have said that a software company has created a foundational model for robotics.

The two -year -old company, Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Ventures Partners and investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kotu Management, raised $ 1.5 billion in funding worth $ 1.5 billion last July.

The company’s AI model can be applied to various types of robots, the founder of the skill, Deepak Pathak and Fabark Gupta told TechCranch last July. They say that the general model is a specific domain and can be corrected in use.

Robotics and AI’s intersection have shown great interest in investors.

For recent years, investors, especially Bezos, have raised their funds to AI-driven robotics companies.

Physical intelligence, a startup Raising $ 400 million In November, a pre-meaning evaluation of $ 2 billion, another startup that claims that “brain” is developing for broad robots. Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital and Thrive Capital led the round.

Last February, Image AIAn AI-powered Humanoid Robot construction has collected $ 2.6 billion from $ 2.6 billion (through the Bezos Expedition) from an startup, Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expedition).