Rivian Spinout Mind Robotics Raises $500M to Scale AI Robots for High-Dexterity Factory Work
TechCrunch reports that Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics company spun out of Rivian in late 2025, raised $500 million in a Series A co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The company says it is building AI models, hardware, and deployment infrastructure for factory tasks that still require human-like dexterity and adaptation, with plans for broader robot deployments by the end of 2026. While Mind is not positioning itself as a consumer robot brand today, the funding round is notable for home and humanoid robotics because it signals continued investor confidence in physical-AI systems aimed at closing the gap between rigid automation and flexible, human-like manipulation.