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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
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Ford’s former EV and software chief will run Rivian’s robotics spinoff at a time of maximum hype for physical AI.
Ford’s former EV and software chief will run Rivian’s robotics spinoff at a time of maximum hype for physical AI.
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company’s secretive robotics startup.
Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company’s ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an autonomous electric car. He had a previous stint at Apple as VP of Mac hardware engineering, but he left the company in 2013 to become Tesla’s chief vehicle engineer, where he helped oversee the Model 3 sedan. He left Tesla in 2018 and rejoined Apple. In 2021, Field was hired by Ford to run the automaker’s electric vehicle and software division, a position he held until earlier this year.
Mind Robotics said Field will oversee its effort to build “universally capable robots” for the purpose of working in Rivian’s factories, as well as other applications. The startup was founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe in 2025, and has since raised over $1 billion in financing. While the company has yet to show off any of its robots in public, the startup says its robots are being designed with “dexterity and physical reasoning” that’s required for industrial work.