Intrinsic joining Google as a a distinct robotics and AI unit

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Hi Everyone,

As you may have seen in the recent blog post, Intrinsic is joining Google as a distinct robotics and AI unit. Specifically Intrinsic’s platform will bring a new “infrastructural bridge” between Google’s frontier AI research (such as the AI coming from teams at Gemini and DeepMind) and the practical, high-stakes requirements of industrial manufacturing, which is Intrinsic’s focus. This decision will allow our team to continue building the Intrinsic platform, and operate in a very similar way to before. Our commercial mandate remains the same, as does our focus on delivering intelligent solutions for our customers.

Intrinsic remains dedicated to the commitments we’ve made to the open source community, to ROS, Gazebo and Open-RMF (including Lyrical and Kura release roadmaps) and deepening our platform integrations with ROS over time. We’re also very excited about the AI for Industry Challenge this year, which is organized with the team at Open Robotics and has thousands of registrants so far.

From the community’s perspective we are expecting minimal disruption, if any, and we look forward to showing and sharing more news at ROSCon in Toronto later this year.

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I’m excited to hear about the changes at Intrinsic. Joining Google is going to give them access to resources and amazing technologies from other parts of Google, including Gemini, DeepMind, and Google’s cloud services. This will allow Intrinsic to accelerate their contributions to Physical AI. With Tully and Yadu, both at Intrinsic, leading our Special Interest Group on Physical AI, and the knowledge that Intrinsic uses ROS, Gazebo and Open-RMF, I am sure that this news means more contributions to using the Open Robotics projects with AI-based approaches, and with a focus on using them for the factory floor. I look forward to seeing what amazing contributions Intrinsic is able to bring to open-source robotics with their new colleagues throughout Google!

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Just to get the whole context: Intrinsic was directly under Alphabet and now moves under Google which is under Alphabet, right?

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I am asking the same question :grin: