Mind Robotics: Building the AI-Native Robotics Platform for Manufacturing

Manufacturing is one of the most complex and important parts of the physical economy. Yet even in the most advanced factories, automation has largely been limited to tasks that are highly repeatable. The next opportunity is to bring intelligence, dexterity, and adaptation to the parts of manufacturing that have been hardest to automate.

Mind Robotics was founded to bring the power of foundation models and purpose-built hardware to this opportunity. The company is building the world’s leading industrial robotics platform, combining models, hardware, and deployment infrastructure to automate dexterous, reasoning-intensive manufacturing tasks at scale.

What makes Mind unique is where it begins. With Rivian as a key partner and shareholder, Mind has access to a live, high-volume manufacturing environment from day one. That gives the team all the ingredients required to make general-purpose robotics work in the real world: rich manufacturing data, industrial systems expertise, a first customer at scale, and the ability to build and deploy in the environments the product is designed to serve.

RJ Scaringe has spent years building one of the most complex physical products in the world. Through Rivian, he and the team developed deep expertise across electrical systems, batteries, actuation, motors, software, supply chain, structural design, and manufacturing. Many of those capabilities translate naturally to robotics. A robot, like an electric vehicle, is an energy system powered by actuators, motors, sensors, software, and robust physical design.

The timing is finally right. Advances in models, sensing, actuation, and hardware are coming together to make robotics possible in a way that was not before. Automotive manufacturing is an extraordinary starting point, with processes spanning welding, fasteners, castings, stampings, fixtures, assemblies, and electrical systems. The data and learning from this environment can extend over time into appliances, soft goods, and many other categories of physical production in the future.

We are thrilled to lead Mind’s latest round and partner with RJ and his team as they build the AI-native robotics platform for the next era of manufacturing.