AI-powered industrial robotics platform that pairs foundation models with robust hardware and deployment infrastructure to automate complex, dexterous manufacturing tasks at scale. Rivian acts as a launch partner and shareholder, providing a live, high-volume factory environment for model training and deployment.
AI-powered industrial robotics platform that pairs foundation models with robust hardware and deployment infrastructure to automate complex, dexterous manufacturing tasks at scale. Rivian acts as a launch partner and shareholder, providing a live, high-volume factory environment for model training and deployment.
Mind Robotics was spun out of Rivian in November 2025 by Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. It began life as an internal effort code-named "Project Synapse" to build robotics with human-like dexterity for industrial manufacturing, with founding contributors recruited from Physical Intelligence, Waymo, Zoox, and Google.
Brings total investment above $1B. New investors Meritech Capital and Redpoint Ventures joined existing backers Accel, a16z, and Eclipse. Funds to expand industrial robot deployments.
The round values Mind Robotics at ~$2B and brings total funding to $615M. Company plans large-scale robot deployment at Rivian factories by end of 2026.
Initial seed financing secured when the company was spun out of Rivian in late 2025.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe launched Mind Robotics in November 2025 to build AI-powered industrial robots using data from Rivian's EV factory. Focuses on dexterous, reasoning-intensive manufacturing tasks.
$1B raised total
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