Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google

Google is moving further into carnal AI by bringing a acquainted robotics bundle level nether its wing.

Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which builds AI models and bundle designed to marque concern robots much accessible, is joining Google, the companies announced connected Wednesday. Intrinsic volition stay a chiseled entity wrong Google but volition enactment intimately with Google DeepMind and volition pat into Google’s Gemini AI models and unreality services.

Alphabet declined to stock accusation regarding backing oregon acquisition price.

Intrinsic “graduated” into an independent Alphabet-owned institution successful 2021 aft 5 years of improvement wrong Alphabet’s X, the company’s moonshot probe division. Other companies that person graduated from X see robotaxi institution Waymo and drone transportation institution Wing.

Wendy Tan White has served arsenic Intrinsic’s CEO since its spinout successful 2021.

The institution deed the crushed running. A fewer months aft announcing its independence, Intrinsic acquired Vicarious, a chap robotics bundle company, successful April 2022. While the acquisition terms wasn’t disclosed, Vicarious had raised astir $250 cardinal from VCs and tech large wigs similar Jeff Bezos.

A fewer months later, Intrinsic acquired respective for-profit divisions of Open Robotics, a non-profit enactment that builds hardware and bundle platforms for the robotics industry.

Despite this accelerated expansion, Intrinsic laid disconnected 20% of its workforce successful January 2023.

The institution announced its archetypal product, Flowstate, conscionable a fewer months later. Flowstate is simply a bundle level for developing robotics workflows aimed astatine developers that don’t person heavy robotics acquisition — aligning with the company’s ngo to marque robotics much accessible.

Since then, the institution has fine-tuned the technology, improved its simulation capabilities, and released its Intrinsic Vision AI exemplary successful precocious 2025.

Instrinsic announced a joint task with electronics shaper Foxconn successful October 2025 that entails the 2 companies moving unneurotic connected general-purpose intelligent robots to alteration however electronics are manufactured, with the extremity of afloat mill automation.

Now, the institution is moving toward those goals with person collaboration with Google’s AI prowess.

“Combined with Google’s unthinkable AI and infrastructure, we’re going to unlock the committedness of carnal AI for a overmuch broader acceptable of manufacturing businesses and developers. This volition fundamentally displacement production, from its economics to operations, and alteration genuinely precocious manufacturing,” Tan White wrote successful the company’s blog post.

This determination makes a batch of consciousness for Google arsenic galore tech leaders, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, spot carnal AI arsenic the adjacent earthy measurement successful the monetization and advancement of AI models and technology.