Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic has joined Google

Google is moving toward physical AI by taking its familiar robotics software platform under its wing.

Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which builds artificial intelligence models and software designed to make industrial robots more accessible, will join Google, the two companies announced on Wednesday. Intrinsic will remain a distinct entity within Google but will work closely with Google DeepMind and leverage Google’s Gemini AI models and cloud services.

Alphabet declined to share information about financing or the purchase price.

Intrinsic “graduated” to an independent company owned by Alphabet in 2021 after five years of development within Alphabet’s X, the company’s research division. Other companies graduating from X include robotaxi company Waymo and drone delivery company Wing.

Wendy Tan White has served as CEO of Intrinsic since its launch in 2021.

The company has hit the ground running. A few months after declaring its independence, Intrinsic acquired Vicarious, a fellow robotics software company, in April 2022. While the purchase price was not disclosed, Vicarious has raised about $250 million from venture capital firms and tech bigwigs like Jeff Bezos.

A few months later, Intrinsic acquired several for-profit divisions of Open Robotics, a nonprofit organization that builds hardware and software platforms for the robotics industry.

Despite this rapid expansion, Intrinsic laid off 20% of its workforce in January 2023.

The company announced its first product, Flowstate, just a few months later. Flowstate is a bot development workflow software platform aimed at developers who don’t have deep robotics experience — in line with the company’s mission to make bots more accessible.

Since then, the company has fine-tuned the technology and improved its simulation capabilities, releasing an Intrinsic Vision AI model in late 2025.

Intrinsic announced a joint venture with electronics manufacturer Foxconn in October 2025, which will see the two companies work together on general-purpose intelligent robots to transform how electronics are manufactured, with the aim of fully automating the factory.

Now, the company is working to achieve these goals through close collaboration with Google’s AI prowess.

“Combined with AI and Google’s incredible infrastructure, we will unleash the promise of physical AI to a much broader set of manufacturing companies and developers. This will fundamentally transform production, from its economics to its operations, and enable truly advanced manufacturing,” Tan White wrote in a company blog post.

The move makes a lot of sense for Google, as many technology leaders, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, see physical AI as the natural next step in monetizing and advancing AI models and technologies.