Google LLC announced today that it is bringing robotics software company Intrinsic Innovation LLC into its core operations to accelerate development of physical artificial intelligence as part of its push to extend AI beyond digital applications and into real-world industrial environments.
The move folds Intrinsic, a company spun out of X, Alphabet Inc.’s Moonshot Factory in 2021, more tightly into Google’s AI strategy as the company looks to simplify and scale the deployment of industrial robotics.
Intrinsic focuses on making industrial robots easier to program, adapt and operate by reducing the complexity that is traditionally associated with robotics development. The company doesn’t make robots but develops software and AI models that make robotic systems easier to use and program.
Google plans to integrate Intrinsic’s robotics development platform and vision models with its broader AI ecosystem, including large language models and multimodal systems developed by Google DeepMind.
The integration will combine advanced reasoning, perception and learning capabilities with industrial-grade robotics software to allow machines to better interpret sensor data, adapt to dynamic environments and execute complex tasks.
“Combined with Google’s incredible AI and infrastructure, we’re going to unlock the promise of physical AI for a much broader set of manufacturing businesses and developers,” explains Wendy Tan White, the chief executive officer of Intrinsic. “This will fundamentally shift production, from its economics to operations and enable truly advanced manufacturing.”
The integration comes amid an industry shift toward embedding AI directly into physical systems such as factory robots, warehouse automation platforms and other industrial equipment.
As has been well publicized over the last few years, AI has rapidly advanced in cloud and consumer applications, but applying it reliably in real-world environments remains a challenge, one that the two companies plan to take on by pairing Intrinsic’s robotics software stack with Google’s AI and cloud infrastructure.
The combination, in theory, should help Google play a central role in shaping the next phase of intelligent automation, one where AI systems do not just analyze data but directly act on the physical world.
Photo: Intrinsic
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