{"id":196519,"date":"2026-03-16T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:05:16","slug":"skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Skild AI, Nvidia deploy robot brain on Blackwell assembly lines | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wkzo.com\/2026\/03\/16\/skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines\/\">Skild AI, Nvidia deploy robot brain on Blackwell assembly lines | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wkzo.com\/2026\/03\/16\/skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines\/\">https:\/\/wkzo.com\/2026\/03\/16\/skild-ai-nvidia-deploy-robot-brain-on-blackwell-assembly-lines\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-16 18:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wkzo.com\">wkzo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skild AI&#8217;s AI model will power robots at Foxconn&#8217;s Texas assembly line where Nvidia&#8217;s Blackwell GPUs are made, marking an early commercial deployment of general-purpose physical AI.<\/li>\n<li>Skild AI has partnered with ABB Robotics and Universal Robots to integrate its software across industrial robots, providing a general-purpose &#8220;brain&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The partnership aims to address the limitation of current robotics systems which are programmed for single tasks and require extensive engineering to adapt to new processes.<\/li>\n<li>Skild AI&#8217;s CEO, Deepak Pathak, noted that by partnering with OEM partners, the company can achieve extreme scalability and data integration, promoting a data flywheel.<\/li>\n<li>The partnerships are part of a larger US initiative to rebuild domestic manufacturing with an investment influx of $1.2 trillion in 2025, leading to increased reliance on automation.<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia plans to produce AI supercomputers entirely in the US, highlighting the importance of factory autonomy in the rebuilding process.<\/li>\n<li>SoftBank is set to acquire ABB\u2019s robotics business for $5.38 billion by mid-to-late 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in funding led by investors including Nvidia and SoftBank, valuing the firm at over $14 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skild AI, Nvidia deploy robot brain on Blackwell assembly lines | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/media.mwcradio.com\/mimesis\/2026-03\/16\/2026-03-16T203753Z_1_LYNXMPEM2F1AB_RTROPTP_3_NVIDIA-FOXCONN.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196521,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196519\/revisions\/196521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}