RJ Scaringe
Robert Joseph Scaringe is an American engineer and businessman who is the founder and CEO of electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian Automotive. He is also the founder and executive chair of Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics startup he launched in 2025 that is developing humanoid robots for manufacturing environments. Scaringe is best known for founding Rivian in 2009 and leading the company through its initial public offering in 2021. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT's Sloan Automotive Lab.
“We can attract better talent that will not necessarily go work today, uh, for that problem inside Rivian. We can attract external capital.”
Source→“"We actually partnered up with this company called Also, which is this micro mobility company that spun out of Rivian. So RJ is actually the board founder and chairman of the company. Why don't we work with someone who knows how to actually scale vehicles."”
Source→“The dominant robotics paradigm — humanoid, general-purpose machines — is misaligned with industrial deployment realities.”
Source→“Scaringe's distrust of robotics incumbents' ability to scale at industrial tolerances is both the founding thesis and the competitive moat logic”
Source→“Scaringe structured the relationship between Rivian and Mind Robotics deliberately — Rivian is the first customer, test bed, and data source.”
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