A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff of nightmares for most people. “This is something we call an omni-bodied brain,” Pathak tells me. His startup developed the generalist artificial intelligence algorithm to address a key challenge with advancing robotics: “Any robot, any task, one brain. The AI-controlled robot is able to adapt to new, extreme circumstances, such as the loss of limbs. What do you think of Skild’s multitalented robot brain?