Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics business, as the “one brain controls all robots” roadmap begins to take shape

ME News, April 16 (UTC+8), according to Beating Insight monitoring, robot foundational model company Skild AI announced the acquisition of Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including the Symmetry Fulfillment scheduling platform already deployed across multiple major logistics warehouses. The business previously operated under Fetch Robotics, a warehouse mobile robotics company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Skild AI was founded in Pittsburgh in 2023. Its core product, “Skild Brain,” is a universal robot AI that does not require separate training for each type of robot; the same model can directly control humanoid robots, quadruped robots, robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and other hardware. Investors in the company include SoftBank, NVIDIA Venture Capital, Bezos, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Coatue, and others, with a valuation of over $14 billion. The press release also disclosed that Skild AI achieved approximately $30 million in revenue in 2025 within just a few months.

The significance of this acquisition lies in moving from “selling brains” to “running warehouses.” Last month, Skild AI just reached a partnership with ABB Robotics and Universal Robots, deploying Skild Brain on industrial robots, but at its core that was still selling software. This acquisition directly secures Zebra’s scheduling infrastructure in the warehousing sector, as well as its customer relationships. The Symmetry platform can coordinate different types of robots in real time with frontline workers wearing Zebra wearable devices. After the acquisition is completed, Skild AI will be able to provide a complete warehouse automation solution: humanoid robots for picking, robotic arms for packing, AMRs for transportation, Symmetry for unified scheduling, and Skild Brain for unified control.

Currently, warehouse automation is highly fragmented: each type of robot corresponds to a dedicated set of software, meaning that switching to another robot type nearly requires building from scratch. Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak said that dismantling existing warehouses and rebuilding around pre-programmed robots is not economically feasible; only by combining Zebra’s human-machine collaborative scheduling platform with Skild AI’s universal brain can the current approach to warehouse automation be changed.

(Source: BlockBeats)