Rivian is the first customer for the general-purpose robots in development. Source: Mind Robotics
Mind Robotics Inc. yesterday said it has raised $400 million, bringing its total investment to more than $1 billion. The company said it plans to use the funding to expand deployment of its AI-powered robots in manufacturing environments.
“We are excited about the technology and product roadmap we are developing at Mind, with a focus on scaled deployments,” said RJ Scaringe, founder of Mind Robotics. “We are proud to have Kleiner Perkins and our full investor coalition behind us.”
Scaringe, who co-founded electric vehicle maker Rivian, spun out Mind Robotics in November 2025. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said it is building a “full-stack platform of foundation models, purpose-built robotics, and deployment infrastructure to automate industrial and manufacturing tasks at scale.”
Mind Robotics works with Rivian as first customer
Mind Robotics said its rapidly growing team has expertise spanning AI, robotics, and industrial manufacturing. The startup added that it is combining AI, robust hardware, and infrastructure to automate dexterous, reasoning-intensive manufacturing tasks at scale.
Rivian is a key partner and shareholder of Mind Robotics, providing a live, high-volume manufacturing environment for model training and deployment. This provides production data to feed Mind Robotics’ “data flywheel” for rapid iteration.
“We are not building single-task machines,” said the company on its website, which does not yet have any images of robots. “By leveraging modern progress in physical AI, we are developing a platform that generalizes across core tasks and scales across manufacturing domains.”
Editor’s note: Physical AI will be among the major topics at the Robotics Summit & Expo this month in Boston, including in the MassRobotics Physical AI Showcase. Register now to attend.
‘Unicorn’ gets Kleiner Perkins vote of confidence
Kleiner Perkins led Mind Robotics’ latest financing, which included participation from new investors including Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Incharge Capital, A-Star Capital, and Garuda Ventures. Existing investors including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse, Prysm Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greenoaks also participated.
“Robotics is the ultimate frontier,” stated Ilya Fushman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins. “It is poised to become one of the biggest markets, and advances in models and hardware are coming together to make this possible. Mind Robotics has unique access to all the ingredients required to make general-purpose robotics work in real-world manufacturing, and we’re thrilled to lead this round.”
Mind Robotics obtained $115 million in seed financing in late 2025 and a $500 million Series A round in March 2026. Other companies that recently raised money around physical AI include Vention with $110 million, RLWRLD with $26 million, and ZaiNar with $100 million.
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