Google’s robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots

Google’s robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots

Intrinsic, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., said today that it’s open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform.

Announced at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto today, the new offering is called Intrinsic Core, and its release under a permissive Apache 2.0 license is all about democratizing access to intelligent robotics, the company said. Founded in 2021, Intrinsic was incorporated into Google’s operations…