Mind Robotics just announced a $400 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, pushing the RJ Scaringe founded company past $1 billion in total funding in under a year. Rivian is a key partner and shareholder, and the Normal plant is essentially the live training environment for Mind's robots.
Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics company RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian, just closed a $500 million Series A co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, bringing total funding to $615 million and a $2 billion valuation in just a few months.
2026 is not just the year Rivian launches a cheaper SUV. It is the year Rivian stops being “the cool truck startup” and starts looking like a full blown technology platform that happens to build vehicles. R2, autonomy, ALSO, and Mind Robotics are not four separate storylines. They are one big bet that Rivian can live in every layer of…
Rivian’s been branching out in some unexpected but exciting directions lately, and its latest move continues that trend. In their Q3 shareholder letter, Rivian revealed the launch of a brand-new company called Mind Robotics, a venture dedicated to pushing forward industrial AI and robotics. Mind Robotics already secured around $110 million in seed funding and will focus on using artificial intelligence…
