The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Mind Robotics: 1 model, $1.0B raised. 11 sources back the record.
Overview
American industrial robotics and physical-AI startup spun out of Rivian in November 2025 (internal code name 'Project Synapse'), headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded and chaired by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe; Rivian is a shareholder and operating partner, with Mind Robotics using Rivian's high-volume factory floors as a live training and deployment environment.
Builds AI foundation models, purpose-built industrial robots, and the fleet software needed to run them in production. Focuses explicitly on industrial automation rather than humanoid form factors, framing the moat as continuous real-world manipulation data from Rivian's plants. As of May 2026 has raised approximately $1 billion across three rounds (Nov 2025 seed ~$115M led by Eclipse; March 2026 Series A $500M co-led by Accel and Andreessen horowitz; May 2026 $400M led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Volkswagen and Salesforce venture arms), reaching a $3.4 billion valuation.
Scaringe has stated publicly that Mind Robotics expects to have a substantial number of robots deployed by the end of 2026; specific named-site deployments have not been publicly confirmed and are not part of this verified record.
Reality check
Focus (company-claimed)
Industrial automation: foundation models, purpose-built robots and fleet software.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
Origin (reported, Nov 2025)
Rivian role (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (reported, unconfirmed)
Valuation (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
5
Web sources
4
11 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Mind Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Rivian1× joint3 total
Most recent
Mind Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- RJ Scaringe Founded and chaired byreported, not verified
- Doug Field Presidentsince 2026-10-13IR-verified
Founders (1)
- RJ Scaringe
later founded Also
Safety record
No incidents on record for Mind Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Mind Robotics in third-party press
Peers
173 peers across 2 segments. Every Mind Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(98)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIST Humanoid Research Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgiBotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
industrial robot(75)
33 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2051.61304640928) · leader Mind Robotics at 3415%
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Tutor Intelligencedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- X Square Robotdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- ABB Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AMP Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ASUSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (8)
Registry pages whose text names Mind Robotics.
Robots and products (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.0B
- Employees
- 25
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Mind Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Rivian1× joint3 total
Funding rounds (3)
Mind Robotics’s 3 disclosed rounds, $1.0B in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2026-05-14
$400M(reported) · $3.4B post
Investors: Kleiner Perkins (lead), Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Eclipse Ventures, Prysm Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Greenoaks Capital
- Series A2026-03-11
$500M(reported) · $3.0B post
Investors: Accel (co_lead), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (co_lead), Eclipse Ventures, Prysm Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Greenoaks Capital
- Seed2025-11-01
$115M(reported) · $460M post
Investors: Eclipse Ventures (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Mind Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2026-05-14Series B raising $400000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-03-11Series A raising $500000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-11-01Seed raising $115000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdMay 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (11)
- Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M · https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/rivian-spinoff-mind-robotics-raises-another-400m/ · 2026-05-13
- Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots · https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/rivian-mind-robotics-series-a-500m-fund-raise-industrial-ai-powered-robots/ · 2026-03-11
- Rivian creates Mind Robotics as a spinoff company to focus on advancing industrial AI · https://www.robotics247.com/article/rivian_creates_mind_robotics_as_a_spinoff_company_to_focus_on_advancing_industrial_ai · 2025-11-18
- Rivian spinout Mind Robotics lands $400M to push AI robots onto factory floors · https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/rivian-spinout-mind-robotics-lands-400m-push-ai-robots-onto-factory-floors/ · 2026-05-13
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/rivian-creates-another-spinoff-company-called-mind-robotics/
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260311414783/en/Mind-Robotics-Announces-$500M-Financing-to-Support-Deployment-of-AI-Powered-Robots-at-Industrial-Scale
- https://www.therobotreport.com/mind-robotics-raises-series-a-develop-ai-driven-industrial-automation/
- https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/99921-mind-robotics-develops-ai-driven-platform-to-automate-complex-factory-tasks-at-rivian
- https://www.mindrobotics.com/
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139500016
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Robotics
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Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 2
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Mind Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Mind Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Mind Robotics hires Doug Field to scale its factory robots
Mind's bottleneck is industrialisation rather than AI models, which is exactly the problem Field has spent his career solving. By Stewart Burnett The post Mind Robotics hires Doug…
Rivian’s Mind Robotics snags Doug Field, ex-Tesla and Ford EV chief
Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ…
Rivian’s startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.
Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field
Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of…
Chinese CEO Laments Many Robotics Firms Fabricate Revenue
<p>The co-founder and CEO of Mech-Mind Robotics, a Beijing-based robotics firm that recently went public, said in a post on WeChat on Thursday that many Chinese embodied AI…
Report: China’s Mech-Mind Robotics Set to Open Order Book for US$300M IPO
Insider Brief China’s Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies is preparing to open investor orders for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise about $300 million, the South…
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Robotics startups raised 8.8B globally in H1 2026, surpassing 2025's full-year total of 5B, driven by embodied AI and humanoid robotics deals including Saronic, NEURA Robotics,…
Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises 500M for industrial AI-powered robots
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of Rivian, raised 500M in a Series A round co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to build and deploy AI-enabled robotic…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/mind-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/mind-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/cfd3ef07-ec13-4d36-996c-2d0339b1aa51
- Revision history: /companies/mind-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Mind Robotics draws attention at the 67th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $1.0B raised and recent funding activity. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 18, 2026