AI-enabled robotics: powerfully adaptive productivity tools for more businesses
Physical AI is where software and hardware converge to do valuable real-world tasks. In robotics for manufacturing, that could be system-testing solar panels, accurately assembling server trays, or lifting a 1,000 lb EV battery into place. AI unlocks adaptive intelligence for robots, enabling them to use data to perceive, reason, and react to changes in processes and their environment – think autonomous robots navigating and adapting to changes in parts and processes on an assembly line. By making robots seamless to program, reprogram and use for different tasks, they become powerfully versatile tools helping businesses grow faster and flexibly adapt to shifting needs.
AI meets the Android of robotics
Much like Android provides developers a universal platform for building apps that work across different mobile devices, Intrinsic supports app building across different robots, cameras, sensors, AI models and supporting hardware. This lets developers focus on solving customer problems, and not the plumbing. With Flowstate, Intrinsic’s web-based development environment and simulation engine, it’s easy to build applications with ready-to-use ‘building blocks of robotic behaviors’ known as skills. Skills can be manually-developed or AI-enabled, without the need for deep expertise and hundreds of programming hours. Whether the goal is to identify complex parts for assembly, auto-generate code for efficient robot motions, or delicately handle parts using force sensors, these capabilities combine to unlock the task at hand. With a few clicks, you can launch intelligent robotic applications from simulation right through to real world production, in a fraction of the time it usually takes. System integrators and automation companies of all sizes building with Intrinsic are resetting their expectations of industrial robotics – from small machine shops to market leaders like Foxconn.
“At Google, we see the immense opportunity in bridging the gap between the digital and physical world – that is also true for intelligent robotics in industries like manufacturing and logistics. We’re excited to welcome the Intrinsic team to Google, so we can bring breakthrough AI to more businesses and industries, at scale.”
– Hiroshi Lockheimer, Chief Product Officer of the Other Bets