Last year, Rivian launched its own robotics and AI venture, Mind Robotics. And now it's hired a new president, Doug Field, who previously spent time at Ford and Telsa working on EVs. While Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe will still be involved, Mind Robotics is Field's show to run now, TechCrunch reported this week.
“Him and I then really began digging into how important it is that we really think deeply and very intentionally about how we develop robotics and deploy robotics into our society, into our economy, and we found such alignment in how we thought about this from the overall mission of the business, but even more important, we found really deep alignment just in how we both work and how we build teams,” Scaringe reportedly said Tuesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference.
