Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Ford" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/c60a24b2-e1cf-4857-8c59-5fb7f9f74efe-Doug_Field_portrait.webp?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company's secretive robotics startup. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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 <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/25/5027970/doug-field-leaves-apple-mac-hardware-engineering-for-tesla-motors">in 2013</a> to become Tesla's chief vehicle engineer, where he helped <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17528484/tesla-doug-field-model-3-production-elon-musk">oversee the Model 3 sedan</a>. He left Tesla in 2018 and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/10/17673712/doug-field-apple-tesla-project-titan">rejoined Apple</a>. In 2021, Field was <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/7/22661291/apple-car-chief-ford-doug-field">hired by Ford</a> to run the automaker's electric vehicle and software division, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/transportation/912647/ford-doug-field-leaving-ev-software">a p …</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1010050/rivian-mind-robotics-hires-doug-field-ford-tesla-apple">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>