AUTONOMOUS 2026
Deepak Pathak
CEO
SKILD AI
Deepak Pathak is CEO & Co-Founder of Skild AI and Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. He is developing a general-purpose brain for robotics with a long-term goal of AGI grounded in the physical world, and is known for pioneering contributions to AI, including self-supervised learning, artificial curiosity, and sim2real adaptation for robot learning. Deepak has received several prestigious honors, including MIT TR 35under35, Sloan Fellow, Okawa Fellow, IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards.
Their session
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One Brain, Any Body
The opening shot: a single foundation model that can drive any robot body. Why "omni-bodied" intelligence, not one robot at a time, is the unlock, and what it means for everyone building in physical AI.