Mind Robotics
Industrial robot manufacturer · USA
Industrial AI robotics lab spun out of Rivian in November 2025, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe. Builds AI-driven factory robots trained on Rivian manufacturing data; raised over $1B in its first year, including a $500M Series A co-led by Accel and a16z.
Mind Robotics is a USA-based industrial robot and robot AI maker, founded in 2025. It is privately held. Product lines include Mind AI Factory Robot (in development). It appears in the directory's Industrial Robot Manufacturers (20 companies) and US Robot Manufacturers (28 companies) lists.
- Headquarters
- USA
- Founded
- 2025
- Ownership
- Private
- Robot types
- Industrial robots, Robot AI & foundation models
- Total funding
- $1B+ raised
- Latest round
- $400M at $3.4B valuation (May 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins)
Products
- Mind AI Factory Robot (in development)
Robot reference
- iPal — Humanoid
Mind Robotics coverage
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics 2 Scales via Software Partnerships — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, 2026, delivering vision-language-action models for whole-body humanoid control, dexterity, and multi-robo
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 25–Oct 2, 2026 — Humanoid robots advanced toward real warehouse and factory roles while software platforms and record industrial deployments underscored automation's acceleratin
- Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 Embodied Reasoning Model — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2 on July 30, 2026. The embodied reasoning model enables robots to handle real-time spatial reasoning, multi-step pl
Directory categories
- Industrial Robot Manufacturers — 20 companies
- US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
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