Show the robot one video of a ten-minute job, and it does the ten-minute job — no retraining, nothing typed in
Skild AI has released S1, a robot foundation model prompted with video instead of language: you show it a person doing a task and it produces the actions, in settings and on jobs it never saw during training. The company reports 66 percent success on unseen tasks at 100,000 hours of pre-training, against 9 percent for the same model prompted with words, and puts the value of one demonstration at roughly 380 episodes of post-training. It is the first such model shown holding together across ten-minute jobs with dozens of manipulation steps — making coffee, potting a plant, frying pancakes — and Skild says it improvises through mistakes rather than replaying the video. Performance still falls away when conditions shift far enough that the task needs a different strategy.
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