Google is shifting additional into bodily AI by bringing a well-recognized robotics software program platform beneath its wing.
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which builds AI fashions and software program designed to make industrial robots extra accessible, is becoming a member of Google, the businesses announced on Wednesday. Intrinsic will stay a definite entity inside Google however will work intently with Google DeepMind and can faucet into Google’s Gemini AI fashions and cloud providers.
Alphabet declined to share info concerning funding or buy value.
Intrinsic “graduated” into an unbiased Alphabet-owned firm in 2021 after 5 years of growth inside Alphabet’s X, the corporate’s moonshot analysis division. Different corporations which have graduated from X embody robotaxi firm Waymo and drone supply firm Wing.
Wendy Tan White has served as Intrinsic’s CEO since its spinout in 2021.
The corporate hit the bottom working. A number of months after asserting its independence, Intrinsic acquired Vicarious, a fellow robotics software program firm, in April 2022. Whereas the acquisition value wasn’t disclosed, Vicarious had raised about $250 million from VCs and tech large wigs like Jeff Bezos.
A number of months later, Intrinsic acquired a number of for-profit divisions of Open Robotics, a non-profit group that builds {hardware} and software program platforms for the robotics trade.
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Regardless of this speedy enlargement, Intrinsic laid off 20% of its workforce in January 2023.
The corporate introduced its first product, Flowstate, only a few months later. Flowstate is a software program platform for growing robotics workflows aimed toward builders that don’t have deep robotics expertise — aligning with the corporate’s mission to make robotics extra accessible.
Since then, the corporate has fine-tuned the expertise, improved its simulation capabilities, and launched its Intrinsic Imaginative and prescient AI mannequin in late 2025.
Instrinsic introduced a joint venture with electronics manufacturer Foxconn in October 2025 that entails the 2 corporations working collectively on general-purpose clever robots to rework how electronics are manufactured, with the aim of full manufacturing facility automation.
Now, the corporate is working towards these targets with nearer collaboration with Google’s AI prowess.
“Mixed with Google’s unbelievable AI and infrastructure, we’re going to unlock the promise of bodily AI for a wider set of producing companies and builders. This may basically shift manufacturing, from its economics to operations, and allow really superior manufacturing,” Tan White wrote within the firm’s weblog publish.
This transfer makes a number of sense for Google as many tech leaders, together with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, see bodily AI as the subsequent pure step within the monetization and development of AI fashions and expertise.
