Mind Robotics has introduced a $500 million Sequence A spherical, co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, to construct and deploy AI-enabled robotic techniques at industrial scale. Accel accomplice, Sameer Gandhi, might be becoming a member of the Board of Thoughts Robotics.
This $500 million financing, which is anticipated to shut later this month, follows a seed financing of $115 million led by Eclipse Capital in late 2025.
Thoughts Robotics is constructing the world’s main industrial robotics platform, able to performing dexterous, variable, and reasoning-intensive duties. The corporate was based to handle a structural hole with present industrial automation options.
Current industrial robotics can carry out repeatable, dimensionally secure duties, however a big share of manufacturing unit value-add work requires human-like dexterity, adaptation, and bodily reasoning that classical robotics can’t handle. Thoughts Robotics is constructing the AI basis – fashions, {hardware}, and deployment infrastructure – to shut that hole.
Thoughts Robotics, based and led by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, operates with Rivian as a accomplice and main shareholder, offering a really massive information flywheel for coaching the fashions and an at-scale launch atmosphere.
Grounded in a dwell manufacturing atmosphere, Thoughts Robotics improvement and deployment profit from Rivian’s electro-mechanical engineering experience and substantial manufacturing information.
RJ Scaringe says: “As AI enters the bodily world, we imagine the biggest, at-scale utility for superior robotics might be throughout the commercial sector.
“Superior robotics are going to be essential for world competitiveness, in addition to addressing the substantial industrial labor shortages that exist right now. We’re constructing robots that can carry out actual duties, in actual crops, at actual scale. I’m grateful to have companions that imagine in what we’re constructing at Thoughts Robotics – trying ahead to having Sameer be part of our Board.”
Sameer Gandhi, accomplice at Accel, says: “We again leaders, and this group has a monitor report that speaks for itself. They helped construct one of the formidable manufacturing operations within the EV business.
“That form of execution doesn’t occur accidentally; it displays the standard of the individuals behind it. RJ is a disciplined and visionary chief, and we imagine AI industrial robotics allows one of the thrilling technological shifts of our time.”
Sarah Wang, common accomplice at a16z, says: “RJ is without doubt one of the only a few founders who’ve constructed and scaled a vertically built-in {hardware} firm. At Rivian, he architected the complete stack – car structure, electronics, battery techniques, embedded software program, manufacturing processes, and provide chains – integrating every layer right into a cohesive system.
“That form of end-to-end techniques management is exactly what it takes to construct a generational robotics firm and why we’re excited to again RJ and the Thoughts Robotics group.”
