# Intrinsic

> Intrinsic builds software and AI tools for industrial robotics. Now a distinct group within Google, it offers Flowstate for designing and deploying automation, IntrinsicOS for running it, and the open-source Intrinsic Core toolkit. Its customers and partners include automation integrators, robot makers and manufacturers working on machine tending, inspection and electronics assembly.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, United States
- **Founders:** Wendy Tan White (Founding CEO)
- **Products:** Intrinsic Flowstate, IntrinsicOS and platform infrastructure, Intrinsic capabilities and skills, Intrinsic Vision Model, Intrinsic Core
- **Notable:** Graduated from X after approximately five and a half years of development in July 2021., Announced acquisitions of Vicarious’s business and Open Robotics commercial businesses in 2022., Launched Flowstate in May 2023 and received over 1,000 applications to its first private beta.

## Products & services

- **Intrinsic Flowstate** — Web-based developer environment combining digital workcell design, behavior-tree process authoring, simulation and deployment to supported physical hardware.
- **IntrinsicOS and platform infrastructure** — Linux-based execution environment for Kubernetes-containerized applications, with cloud services and real-time controls for simulated and physical workcells.
- **Intrinsic capabilities and skills** — Reusable perception, motion planning, grasp planning and sensor-based control capabilities for industrial tasks.
- **Intrinsic Vision Model** — Industrial pose-estimation model that accepts CAD geometry to identify objects and their poses without per-part model training.
- **Intrinsic Core** — Apache 2.0 open-source local runtime and ROS-compatible toolkit with real-time control, perception, planning, calibration and simulation capabilities.
- **Open Machine Tending Solution** — Open reference application accompanying Intrinsic Core for adapting CNC machine tending to supported hardware.

## Achievements

- Graduated from X after approximately five and a half years of development in July 2021.
- Announced acquisitions of Vicarious’s business and Open Robotics commercial businesses in 2022.
- Launched Flowstate in May 2023 and received over 1,000 applications to its first private beta.
- Demonstrated customer solutions for adaptive optical inspection and CNC machine tending at Automatica 2025.
- Joined Google as a distinct group in February 2026.
- Released Intrinsic Core and an open machine-tending reference solution in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Released Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0 with the Open Machine Tending Solution reference application.
- **2026-09** — Announced AI for Industry Challenge winners after participation from 5,000 developers in 115 countries; two teams achieved full success in final-stage testing.
- **2026-06** — Previewed the Intrinsic Intelligence Cell at Automate and described a custom Foxconn electronics-assembly pilot planned for later in 2026.
- **2026-05** — Announced expanded FANUC integration.
- **2026-02** — Joined Google while continuing as a distinct group.

## Links

- Website: https://www.intrinsic.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/IntrinsicAI
- GitHub: https://github.com/intrinsic-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/intrinsic

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Last updated: 2026-10-02