Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian 合作伙伴 Mind Robotics 聘请 Doug Field 担任总裁。
Ford’s former EV and software chief will run Rivian’s robotics startup at a time of maximum hype for physical AI.
这位福特前电动汽车与软件业务负责人将在物理人工智能热度高涨之际，执掌 Rivian 的机器人初创公司。
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO’s secretive robotics project.
Rivian 首席执行官 RJ Scaringe 旗下的初创公司 Mind Robotics 宣布任命 Doug Field 为总裁，这对该首席执行官的秘密机器人项目来说是一次重大的人才招揽。
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.
Field 曾担任苹果公司特殊项目副总裁，实际上是该公司最终未能成功的自动驾驶电动汽车项目“泰坦计划”（Project Titan）的负责人。他此前曾在苹果担任 Mac 硬件工程副总裁，但于 2013 年离职，出任特斯拉首席汽车工程师，负责监督 Model 3 轿车的开发。他于 2018 年离开特斯拉并重返苹果。2021 年，Field 被福特聘用，负责该汽车制造商的电动汽车和软件部门，直至今年早些时候离职。
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.
Mind Robotics 表示，Field 将负责监督其构建“通用型机器人”的工作，旨在应用于 Rivian 的工厂以及其他领域。该初创公司由 Rivian 首席执行官 RJ Scaringe 于 2025 年创立，此后已筹集超过 10 亿美元的资金。虽然该公司尚未公开展示其任何机器人，但初创公司称其机器人正按照工业工作所需的“灵活性和物理推理能力”进行设计。
“Doug is a remarkable leader with a track record of delivering new technologies in successful products, and I couldn’t be more excited to be building Mind with him,” Scaringe said in a statement. “He has an incredible ability to foster great teams that take on big, complex ideas and deliver products that reset expectations. That’s exactly what Mind needs as we deploy robots into real factories and beyond.”
Scaringe 在一份声明中表示：“Doug 是一位杰出的领导者，在将新技术转化为成功产品方面拥有卓越的记录，能与他共同打造 Mind，我感到无比兴奋。他拥有非凡的能力，能够培养出优秀的团队，去承担宏大而复杂的构想，并交付出重塑期望的产品。这正是 Mind 在将机器人部署到真实工厂及其他领域时所需要的。”
Field joins Mind Robotics at a major turning point for the field of robotics, with rapid advances in physical AI colliding with major hurdles in hardware and software development. Several companies, like Tesla and Hyundai, are pursuing humanoid robots for factory and warehouse work — even as experts note that making a robot act like a human is easier than scaling the technology for practical work. Mind Robotics hasn’t confirmed whether it’s working on a humanoid design or something else entirely. The company has been on a hiring spree and currently has 32 open positions.
Field 加入 Mind Robotics 正值机器人领域的重大转折点，物理人工智能的快速进步与硬件和软件开发中的重大障碍相互碰撞。包括特斯拉和现代在内的多家公司正在研发用于工厂和仓库工作的类人机器人，尽管专家指出，让机器人表现得像人类比将该技术扩展到实际工作中要容易得多。Mind Robotics 尚未确认其是否正在研发类人设计或其他完全不同的产品。该公司目前正在大举招聘，现有 32 个空缺职位。
Scaringe, who serves as acting CEO and chair of Mind Robotics, has said he wants to keep the companies separate, rather than try to combine the work like Tesla. That said, the companies are certainly linked in several ways. Mind Robotics is using AI training data from Rivian, and the robots will be initially tested in Rivian’s factories. Rivian also owns equity in Mind Robotics and will be the first customer for its robots.
担任 Mind Robotics 代理首席执行官兼董事长的 Scaringe 表示，他希望保持两家公司的独立性，而不是像特斯拉那样试图合并业务。话虽如此，两家公司在多个方面确实存在关联。Mind Robotics 正在使用来自 Rivian 的人工智能训练数据，且机器人将首先在 Rivian 的工厂进行测试。Rivian 还持有 Mind Robotics 的股权，并将成为其机器人的首位客户。
Field said he is excited for the challenge in running the new startup. “Integrating AI and robotics is one of the most important—and difficult—engineering challenges of our time,” he said in a statement. “Mind has assembled an exceptional team and has a unique advantage: the ability to deploy and learn inside a real, high-volume factory from day one. I’m thrilled to join RJ in building a team, culture, and technology that will redefine what we can make in America.”
Field 表示，他对运营这家新初创公司所带来的挑战感到兴奋。他在一份声明中说：“整合人工智能和机器人技术是我们这个时代最重要、也最困难的工程挑战之一。Mind 组建了一支卓越的团队，并拥有一个独特的优势：从第一天起就能在真实的、大批量生产的工厂中进行部署和学习。我很高兴能与 RJ 一起建立一个团队、文化和技术，这将重新定义我们在美国能够制造的产品。”