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Daniel Burrows reposted thisDaniel Burrows reposted thisTwo months in at Mind Robotics. Quick take: the roadmap and the approach is the most exciting I've seen in robotics, and the team is the kind you only get once. Here's the thing I keep telling everyone : automating an industrial task comes down to two things: reliability and cost. The products that actually change factory economics are the ones that run every shift, every week, without a technician babysitting them. You only get there by being relentless and extremely thoughtful about the design: simplest mechanism that works, fewest parts, fewest failure modes. We're hiring across hardware in Palo Alto (all on-site, full-time): Actuation Engineer Actuation Engineer, Gear Design Actuation Engineer, Motor Design Electrical Design Engineer Global Supply Chain Manager Mechanical Design Engineer Mechanical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing Safety Engineer Systems Engineer Thermal Design Engineer If you've built great products, please apply at https://lnkd.in/gtacDQgB or send me a DM!
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Daniel Burrows reposted thisDaniel Burrows reposted thisWe are incredibly excited to share that Mind Robotics has closed our latest funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from an incredible group of partners including Prysm Capital, Meritech Capital, Redpoint, Incharge Capital Partners, SV Angel, A*, Accel, Eclipse, Greenoaks, Andreessen Horowitz, and Garuda Ventures. Our focus remains exactly where it started: on the factory floor. We are building robots that don't just follow instructions, but actually understand and interact with the physical world. But most importantly, we are excited to find more of the right people to build this with. We’re just getting started.
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Daniel Burrows shared this$400M in New Funding to Expand Industrial Robotics Deployment, bringing us to over $1B raised in total Welcome to the ride Ilya Fushman and Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, Rishi Taparia, Redpoint, SV Angel, Incharge Capital Partners https://lnkd.in/gzkUC723Mind Robotics: Building the AI-Native Robotics Platform for ManufacturingMind Robotics: Building the AI-Native Robotics Platform for Manufacturing
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Daniel Burrows shared thisEnjoy the show! And check out the TruckWings! #ACTExpoDaniel Burrows shared thisAre fuel prices taking too large a bite out of your operating profits? TruckWings technology helps fleets improve fuel economy. - No driver interaction required - Fast installation - A quick path to ROI Visit ConMet next week at ACT Expo – booth 3664 – to learn how active aerodynamics can deliver practical value for real-world fleets. Then visit Hexagon Agility – booth 3553 – to see a TruckWings system in person. #ConMet #TruckWings #ACTexpo
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Daniel Burrows reposted thisDaniel Burrows reposted thisHuge congratulations to GBx member Daniel Burrows on an incredible milestone and an exciting new chapter. 🎉 After 12 years of building TruckLabs from a run-down garage outside Stanford to 1.5 billion miles across the nation’s largest fleets, Daniel has handed over the reins and is now joining the founding team at Mind Robotics as Head of Data Platform. It's a super exciting time to join Mind Robotics as they just closed a $500M Series A co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. Huge congrats to Daniel and the whole Mind Robotics team - we know this is only the beginning!
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Daniel Burrows reposted thisDaniel Burrows reposted thisWe were thrilled to partner with Silicon Valley Robotics this week at the Rivian space in SF! It was a privilege to host such a high-concentration of builders and operators for an evening dedicated to the next phase of the robotics industry. A major highlight was the keynote from our Founder, RJ Scaringe, who shared Mind’s vision for the future of industrial deployment and the technical realities of scaling Physical AI. Events like these remind us why the Bay Area remains the heartbeat of technical innovation. Thank you to the Rivian, Andra Keay, and everyone who joined us to share their expertise—the energy in the room was a great signal for what's coming in 2026. 🦾 #mindrobotics #svr
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Daniel Burrows reposted thisDaniel Burrows reposted thisIt takes a world-class village to build world-class robotics. We are thrilled to welcome Accel and Andreessen Horowitz as co-leads for our $500M Series A. Their expertise, alongside our incredible cohort of investors— Eclipse, Hanabi Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Prysm Capital, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Greenoaks, and Allen & Company LLC. —gives us the fuel to scale our technology and our team faster than ever. Thank you for the trust and the partnership. We’re just getting started. 🦾
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Daniel Burrows shared thisAfter 12 incredible years, today marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. I'm transitioning from Founder/CEO of TruckLabs, to a founding team member at Mind Robotics! Building the TruckWings product from a run down garage outside Stanford to 1.5 Billion miles across the nation's largest fleets will forever be one of the greatest privileges in my life. And my favorite part was the team I worked with to make it happen. I will forever be amazed at your grit, ingenuity, and ability to just make it happen. Thank you to every single person who was part of the journey. To our customers and investors: without you, we would still be in that garage. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your confidence and trust in our earliest days. Finally, thank you to the fine people at ConMet who are driving TruckWings to new highs with their deep engineering and OEM expertise. I will be cheering you on from the sidelines! Ultimately it was time for a personal transition for me however and I am thrilled to announce a personal transition into a truly exciting field: Embodied AI. I believe this technology holds immense potential to benefit humanity, and I am joining Mind Robotics to focus on building generalized AI robotics for industrial operations. My role will involve leading our critical data flywheel collection, and we are aggressively expanding our team. I can't wait to work alongside Nisha Taparia Ury Zhilinsky Ruijie (RJ) He RJ Scaringe https://lnkd.in/gJxxGkhXExclusive | Rivian CEO’s AI-Powered Robotics Startup Raises $500 MillionExclusive | Rivian CEO’s AI-Powered Robotics Startup Raises $500 Million
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Daniel Burrows reposted thisStop by for a live demo of our TruckWings solution at TMC, and let’s explore how we can help improve your overall fuel economy.Daniel Burrows reposted thisDemo TruckWings technology live at TMC! Visit ConMet at Static Display # 4 during TMC 2026 to see TruckWings technology in action on the Clean Energy RNG truck. Static displays will be located just outside the convention hall on Rep. John Lewis Way S, opposite the Omni hotel. See you in Nasvhille! #ConMet #TruckWings #TMC26
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Daniel Burrows liked thisOne of my favorite parts of being a growth investor at Andreessen Horowitz is that we get to take bold, high conviction bets even at the earliest stages of company building. When I first met Fei-Fei Li, World Labs wasn't fundraising but the path was pretty clear: get involved as early as possible. Watching Fei-Fei, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall dream up new worlds, push the frontier forward with state of the art models and build an incredible culture this past year was a privilege and joy. This team is truly N of 1. Congrats to World Labs and AMD on a partnership led by two of the best CEOs in the world. I can’t wait to see what they build together.Daniel Burrows liked thisWorld Labs is joining AMD. This is a huge moment for World Labs, our team, and for me. I wanted to take a moment to share what this means and why I’m so excited for this next chapter – read more in my Substack linked below. The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve problems in the spatial and physical world. To accelerate into this future requires scaling our efforts, scaling our reach, and getting closer to the hardware. We began a deep technical partnership with AMD last year, starting with model training and inference optimization on AMD GPUs. As our teams worked together, we realized it would be a natural fit to bring together our AI ecosystem of software and hardware, foundation models, and applications. I will join AMD as an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, working directly with CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall to continue leading the World Labs team as it joins AMD to form a world leading frontier research organization. Together, we are committed to building out an end-to-end open AI ecosystem spanning hardware, software, platforms, and widely accessible open models. https://lnkd.in/g8gQ54aj
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Daniel Burrows liked thisDaniel Burrows liked thisI could not have wished for a better start to my new role leading Singapore's Embodied AI Centre. Thank you, Jim Fan, for making your first-ever visit to Singapore and for having a closed-door chat with some of our embodied AI professors and startup founders. We covered a wide range of topics, including the emerging architecture of robotics systems in an agentic-first world, tactile sensing as the biggest untapped modality heading into 2027, how the sim-to-real gap might eventually be solved, framing embodied AI safety as a full-stack problem, and many others. I was most struck by how genuinely interested Jim was in hearing the perspectives of Singapore's robotics researchers, many of whom have been recognized for novel embodied AI research contributions, as well as startup founders whose companies are already partnering with the largest frontier robotics labs from both the US and China. Singapore's embodied AI ecosystem has so much potential, and we look forward to continuing to engage and partner with leading frontier labs and embodied AI companies from around the world. Jianfei Yang Michael Chung Yeung Cho (FrodoBots Lab) Ziwei Wang Cheston Tan Ziwei Liu (Ropedia) Lucas Ngoo (Cortex AI) Daniel Ong (Menlo Research) Ethan Sia (National Robotics Programme) Christopher Low
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Daniel Burrows liked thisDaniel Burrows liked thisRobots learn from real-world experience — and that experience is only as good as the data behind it. Help us take our factory-floor data collection and teleop systems from working prototype to real scale. If this seems like a challenge you'd be interested in, check out our role below for Normal, Il. Link in comments / below 👇
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Daniel Burrows liked thisDaniel Burrows liked thisI'm very happy to share that I've recently joind Mind Robotics! Very glad for the opportunity and looking forward to deploying these robots on factories. 🤖
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Daniel Burrows liked thisDaniel Burrows liked thisI am honored to have been entrusted by Governor Spanberger with the responsibility of serving as the next State Inspector General for the Commonwealth of Virginia and am looking forward to fighting fraud, waste, and abuse in this new role. The dedicated public servants who work in the Office of the State Inspector General are committed to making government more transparent and more accountable for all Virginians, and it is a privilege to support their efforts. https://lnkd.in/eCfZKxFu
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