Mind Robotics

Mind Robotics Inc. is an American industrial robotics company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops artificial intelligence-enabled robotic systems for industrial and manufacturing applications. It describes itself as building a full-stack platform consisting of foundation models, purpose-built robotics hardware, and deployment infrastructure intended to automate industrial and manufacturing tasks at scale. Its stated focus is on tasks requiring dexterity, adaptation, and physical reasoning — including assembly and material handling — that the company says conventional industrial robotics, which handles repeatable and dimensionally stable work, cannot address.

The company positions its work within the category commonly described as "physical AI," applying machine learning to real-world robotic tasks and using data from live industrial processes to train and refine its models. Public reporting notes that the company has stated it is not building single-task machines but a platform intended to generalize across core tasks and scale across manufacturing domains. As of the March 2026 coverage, the company's website did not yet show images of its robots.

Mind Robotics was spun out of electric vehicle maker Rivian in November 2025 and was founded by Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe, who serves as chairman. Rivian retains an ownership stake and a strategic relationship with the company, and Rivian's factories serve as the primary testing and initial deployment environment as well as a source of production and factory sensor data.

Founding story

The company originated from internal Rivian research efforts applying software and automation technologies to manufacturing, and was spun out of Rivian in November 2025. RJ Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, co-founded Mind Robotics and serves as its chairman. Press materials accompanying the Series A stated the company was founded to address a structural gap in existing industrial automation: classical robotics can perform repeatable, dimensionally stable tasks, but much factory value-add work requires human-like dexterity, adaptation, and physical reasoning. Mind Robotics is the second company Rivian spun out in 2025; the first was Also, an electric mobility company.

Business model

Mind Robotics develops and deploys AI-powered robotic systems into manufacturing environments, beginning with a first customer and strategic shareholder, Rivian, whose high-volume production facilities supply training data and serve as a deployment venue. Sources do not describe pricing or contract structures.

Traction

Rivian is the first customer and a key partner and shareholder, providing production environments for model training and deployment. The company describes a rapidly growing team with expertise across AI, robotics, and industrial manufacturing. Total funding exceeded $1 billion within roughly a year of founding.

Latest developments

In May 2026 the company raised $400 million in a round led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from new investors Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Incharge Capital, A-Star Capital, and Garuda Ventures, and existing investors Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse, Prysm Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greenoaks. The round valued the company at $3.4 billion and brought total investment past $1 billion, with proceeds earmarked for expanding deployment of its robots in manufacturing environments.