道格·菲尔德曾在福特和特斯拉从事电动汽车工作，也参与了苹果不太为人知的汽车项目，并且是塞格威的第一名员工。如今，这位高管正将注意力转向里维安首席执行官RJ·斯卡林格的最新项目：Mind Robotics。
Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now, the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics.
菲尔德已被任命为Mind Robotics总裁，这是一家去年从里维安分拆出来的工业人工智能和机器人创业公司。这一消息是在Disrupt 2026舞台上公布的，这也是Mind Robotics正在为扩大其早期运营做准备的又一个迹象——该公司成立仅一年。
Field has been hired at president of Mind Robotics, an industrial AI and robotics venture that spun out of Rivian last year. The news, shared on stage at Disrupt 2026, is another sign that Mind Robotics is getting ready to scale up its early operations just one year after its founding.
斯卡林格仍将参与Mind Robotics，但业务的日常事务，包括产品、工程和运营，将由菲尔德负责。
Scaringe will still be involved with Mind Robotics, but the day-to-day aspects of the business, including product, engineering, and operations will be handled by Field.
Mind Robotics已经从Accel、安德森·霍洛维茨、Eclipse、克莱因·珀金斯以及大众和Salesforce的风险投资部门筹集了超过10亿美元的资金，正在构建用于工业制造的全栈解决方案。这些专门定制的机器人将基于基础模型运行，目标是大规模自动化工业和制造任务。
Mind Robotics, which has already amassed more than $1 billion in backing from Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse, Kleiner Perkins and the venture arms of Volkswagen and Salesforce, is building a full stack for industrial manufacturing. The purpose-built robots will run on foundation models with an goal of automating industrial and manufacturing tasks at scale.
与特斯拉和其他公司正在开发的类人形机器人不同，斯卡林格表示，Mind Robotics不会试图模拟人类的所有生物力学特性。该初创公司还将里维安用作“用于模型训练和部署的实时高产量制造环境”，里维安也是Mind Robotics的首位客户。
Unlike the humanoid-like robots being developed by Tesla and others, Scaringe says Mind Robotics won’t attempt to mimic all the biomechanics of a human. The startup is also using Rivian as “a live, high-volume manufacturing environment for model training and deployment,” with Rivian being Mind Robotics’ first customer.
斯卡林格在周二的Disrupt舞台上表示，他希望找到像菲尔德这样的人来帮助管理Mind Robotics，于是他给菲尔德打了电话，请求推荐。
Scaringe said on the Disrupt stage Tuesday that he wanted someone like Field to help run Mind Robotics, and so he called him up to ask for a recommendation.
“他和我随后真的开始深入探讨，我们认为深思熟虑和非常有意识地思考我们如何开发机器人以及如何将机器人部署到我们的社会和经济中是多么重要，我们在这些方面的想法高度一致，不仅在于我们从公司整体使命出发对这一问题的思考方式，更重要的是，我们发现我们在工作方式和团队建设方面有着非常深刻的一致性，”他说。
“Him and I then really began 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,” he said.
菲尔德在塑造这家汽车制造商电动汽车和技术战略五年后，于四月离开了福特。他的离职是该公司领导层更广泛重组的一部分。在加入福特之前，菲尔德曾领导苹果公司的“泰坦计划”——这一电动自动驾驶汽车项目于2024年被取消。他还曾担任特斯拉的高级工程副总裁，负责Model 3的开发，并成功带领这款轿车走出了“生产地狱”。
Field left Ford in April after five years shaping the automaker’s electric vehicle and technology strategies. His departure was part of a wider reorganization of the automaker’s leadership. Prior to Ford, Field led Apple’s Project Titan, the electric, autonomous car project that was canceled in 2024. He also served as senior vice president of engineering at Tesla, where he oversaw development of the Model 3 and got the sedan through “production hell.”
“将人工智能与机器人技术相结合，是我们这个时代最重要且最具挑战性的工程难题之一，”菲尔德在一份声明中表示。“Mind已经组建了一支卓越的团队，并拥有独特的优势：从第一天起就能在真实的高产量工厂中进行部署和学习。我很高兴能与RJ一起，组建一支能够重新定义美国制造可能性的团队，并打造相应的文化和技术。”
“Integrating AI and robotics is one of the most important–and difficult–engineering challenges of our time,” Field 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.”
Mind Robotics是Scaringe从Rivian分拆出来的第二家公司，此前还有Also，这是一家专注于微型出行领域、以高端电动自行车为起点的企业。与菲尔德和Mind Robotics的情况类似，Scaringe虽担任Also的董事长，但已将日常运营交给了他人负责：Specialized前首席产品官Chris Yu。
Mind Robotics is the second company that Scaringe spun out of Rivian, following Also, a micromobility play that’s starting with high-end e-bikes. Like with Field and Mind Robotics, Scaringe is involved as chairman at Also but has tapped someone to run the day-to-tay: Chris Yu, the former chief product officer of Specialized.
Mind Robotics和Also均以独立公司运营，但Rivian在这两家公司中都持有少数股权。据该公司报告，截至2026年6月30日，其分别拥有这两家初创公司约三分之一的股份。
Mind Robotics and Also operate as standalone companies, but Rivian has minority stakes in both. The company reported owning about a third of each startup as of June 30, 2026.