Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics has hired Doug Field as president, giving him day-to-day control of product, engineering and operations while Scaringe remains involved. Founded last year, Mind Robotics has raised more than $1 billion from investors including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and the venture arms of Volkswagen and Salesforce, and is building robots and foundation-model software for industrial manufacturing. Unlike humanoid robots from Tesla and others, its robots won’t try to mimic all human biomechanics, and Rivian is its first customer and a high-volume environment for training and deployment. Field left Ford in April after five years shaping its EV and technology strategy, and previously led Apple’s canceled Project Titan and engineering for Tesla’s Model 3.
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