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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company's secretive robotics startup. 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 p … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Rivian’s startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field

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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field

Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.

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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company's secretive robotics startup. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto…

Read original at The Verge →

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