Robots at work

Intrinsic releases Intrinsic Core as open source under Apache 2.0, with a reference design for CNC machine tending

Intrinsic, a group inside Google, released parts of its robot software as open source on September 22, 2026, with a reference design for tending CNC machines. We have not run it, and its own files disagree on which Ubuntu it needs.

5 October 2026. 8 min read