Mind Robotics: Bringing AI to the Physical World

For decades, industrial automation has had a hard ceiling. Traditional robots handle pre-programmed, repetitive motions, but cannot handle tasks that require variation. As a result, while one-quarter of the global economy is industrial, more than half of production costs still come from labor.

Today, we're investing in Mind Robotics' $500 million Series A. Mind is building the next generation of industrial robots to automate manufacturing. The philosophy is vertical integration: Mind will train its own models, build custom hardware embodiments, and deploy robots into production.

We believe we've hit a tipping point in bringing AI into the physical world. Up to this point, model intelligence has been most visible in digital domains, such as software engineering and knowledge work. Now, advances in perception, world models, and real-time inference are making it possible for robots to autonomously complete tasks that require generalization across environments.

The blocker is data. To be successful, every robotics company must solve a chicken-and-egg problem between scaling model training and winning deployments. Through its partnership with Rivian, Mind has unique access to real-world production environments, closing the loop and creating a data flywheel that accelerates at scale.

What makes this team particularly compelling is the founding context. RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian and now Mind, has spent his entire career in manufacturing and built Rivian from the ground up over nearly two decades. RJ is a visionary and disciplined leader. His expertise in building hardware at scale, combined with a world-class research team has positioned Mind Robotics to lead industrial automation into the next chapter.

Welcome to the Accel family, Mind Robotics!