Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the assignment of Doug Field arsenic president successful a large coup for the EV company's secretive robotics startup.

Field was a VP of peculiar projects astatine Apple, wherever helium was the de facto caput of the company's yet unsuccessful Project Titan effort to marque an autonomous electrical car. He had a erstwhile stint astatine Apple arsenic VP of Mac hardware engineering, but helium near the institution in 2013 to go Tesla's main conveyance engineer, wherever helium helped oversee the Model 3 sedan. He near Tesla successful 2018 and rejoined Apple. In 2021, Field was hired by Ford to tally the automaker's electrical conveyance and bundle division, a p …

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