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Intrinsic is an AI robotics software company spun out of Alphabet's X in July 2021 and integrated into Google as a distinct unit in February 2026. It builds the Flowstate development environment and the open-source, ROS-compatible Intrinsic Core, letting manufacturers, integrators and developers program, deploy and manage robotic automation with AI-enabled workflows. It acquired Vicarious and Open Robotics' commercial arm in 2022.

CarbonSix, founded in 2024 in San Francisco, was built by the founding team behind SuaLab, a Korean industrial AI vision company acquired by Cognex for approximately $200 million in 2019. The company takes a deployment-first approach, delivering plug-and-play automation tools to factories including dexterous robotic hands, robotic arms, and an imitation learning toolkit that generates high-quality task data from customer use to feed back into model training. The company has active commercial contracts and scaled revenue, and in September 2025 released the industry's first standardized imitation learning toolkit for manufacturing.

RobCo, founded in 2020 in Munich, Germany, develops modular robotic arm products and other robotics solutions for tasks such as machine tending and welding.

InBolt, founded in 2019 in Paris, France, provides AI-based 3D vision technology for robotics in manufacturing.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York (with team members in Paris and Montreal), Norbert Health was started by Alexandre Winter, a computer-vision PhD who previously co-founded Placemeter (acquired by Netgear/Arlo in 2016). It builds a physical AI control system that gives partner robotic hardware clinical capabilities — contactless vital-sign sensing, clinical protocol execution, patient assessments and automated EHR documentation — live in skilled nursing facilities since August 2025.

Acumino, founded in 2021, develops AcuBrain, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform that teaches robots dexterous bimanual manipulation and transfers skills across robot platforms. It has run deployment trials with a major German automaker and a large Japanese marine-engine maker, and in 2026 joined Google DeepMind's first European robotics accelerator.