Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2025
• Website: https://www.mindrobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Mind Robotics develops AI-enabled industrial robots for manufacturing environments. The Palo Alto company is building a full-stack platform that combines foundation models, purpose-built robot hardware and deployment infrastructure for factory tasks such as material handling, assembly support and manipulation.

Market context

Mind Robotics enters the market with unusually large early-stage backing and a live industrial deployment environment through Rivian. That combination gives it immediate access to production data, iteration loops, and a real-world proving ground for physical AI in manufacturing. industrial robotics physical AI for manufacturing full-stack robot deployment systems. dexterous industrial manipulation foundation models for robotics factory deployment systems real-world production iteration loops.

• Capability: dexterous industrial manipulation foundation models for robotics factory deployment systems real-world production iteration loops
• Strategic position: industrial robotics physical AI for manufacturing full-stack robot deployment systems. Capabilities include dexterous industrial manipulation foundation models for robotics factory deployment systems…

Facts

• Website: https://www.mindrobotics.com/
• HQ: Palo Alto, United States
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Industrial
• Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

• 2026-05-13 - Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered industrial robots - source: businesswire.com
• 2026-05-13 - Funding round - $400M - Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered industrial robots - source: businesswire.com
• 2026-03-11 - Series A - $500M - Mind Robotics raises $500M Series A for AI-powered industrial robots - source: finance.yahoo.com
• 2025-11-04 - Seed - $115M - Mind Robotics raises $115M seed round after Rivian spinout - source: techcrunch.com

Investors

• Accel - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-11 - latest 2026-05-13
• Andreessen Horowitz - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-11 - latest 2026-05-13
• Eclipse - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-11-04 - latest 2026-05-13
• A-Star Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Bain Capital Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Garuda Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Greenoaks - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Incharge Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Kleiner Perkins - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Meritech Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Prysm Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Redpoint Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• SV Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-13
• Rivian - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-11

AI-enabled industrial robotics for factory deployment

Mind Robotics develops AI-enabled industrial robotics systems for factory deployment, spanning foundation models, purpose-built robots and deployment infrastructure for variable manufacturing tasks.

• Target environment: Subsea inspection, offshore operations, maritime monitoring, ports, ocean sensing and underwater data-collection workflows.
• Deployment model: Full-stack physical AI model built around robot systems, software and factory deployment environments.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, automotive production teams, industrial automation customers and companies seeking adaptable factory robotics.
• Workflow context: Factory automation, dexterous industrial tasks, robot foundation models, deployment infrastructure, production data and manufacturing iteration loops.
• Commercial maturity: Early industrial robotics company with large early backing and a live deployment environment through Rivian. Scaling depends on production task reliability, customer economics, safety and factory in…
• Market position: Physical AI manufacturing company using factory environments as a proving ground for dexterous industrial robotics.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, safety, production uptime, integration with factory workflows, customer ROI and ability to generalize across variable industrial work.
• Adjacent context: ROVs, AUVs, subsea sensing, offshore inspection, maritime autonomy, ocean data and underwater robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-05-13 - Funding - Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered industrial robots - Mind Robotics announced a $400M financing led by Kleiner Perkins to expand deployment of AI-powered robots in live manufacturing…
• 2026-05-13 - Funding - Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered industrial robots
• 2026-03-11 - Funding - Mind Robotics raises $500M Series A for AI-powered industrial robots - Mind Robotics announced a $500M Series A co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to support deployment of AI-powered robots a…
• 2025-11-04 - Org Change - Rivian creates Mind Robotics as industrial AI and robotics spinout - Rivian created Mind Robotics as an industrial AI and robotics venture focused on physical-world automation
• 2025-11-04 - Funding - Mind Robotics raises $115M seed round after Rivian spinout - Mind Robotics was created as a Rivian spinout focused on industrial AI and robotics.

Team

• RJ Scaringe - Founder & CEO

Context tags

• Industrial manipulation robot OEM - Stack Layer - Mind Robotics builds complete industrial manipulation robot systems.
• Factory floor robotics builder - Peer Group - Mind Robotics builds robotic systems for factory floors and manufacturing.
• Industrial task generalization - Workflow - Mind Robotics robots generalize across industrial tasks.
• Factory robot deployment - Workflow - Mind Robotics deploys robots in factory environments.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Mind Robotics has commercial factory robot deployments.
• Demonstration-taught robot tasks - Workflow - Mind Robotics systems learn from demonstrations.
• Physical AI manipulation builder - Peer Group - Mind Robotics uses AI-driven manipulation for industrial tasks.
• Industrial mobile manipulation builder - Peer Group - Mind Robotics systems support industrial mobile manipulation.
• Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - Mind Robotics systems are deployed in factory automation cells.

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-14 - Mind Robotics raises $400M as total funding passes $1 billion - Led by Kleiner Perkins two months after a $500M Series A, the Rivian spin-out now has $1B+ in funding at a $3B+ valuation - Korthos: /research…