[gertlex]

It's somewhat debatable based on lack of results that have made it to market.

In addition to the other comment mentioning Boston Dynamics, they are also the employers of a lot of folks that were formerly at the Open Source Robotics Foundation(?) (OSRF) (it's more complicated than that) which is behind the ROS1/ROS2 framework that are widely (not universally) used; They also have an internal division or whatever, Intrinsic Robotics (or is it Intrinsic AI? too lazy to check). Plenty of smart people that I've met are involved there!

But I remain skeptical of the top level comment's take, given the lack of any robotics product execution of note by Google for a very long time now.

[robotresearcher]

The OSRF people went to Intrinsic, not Google proper.

[gertlex]

Thanks for the correction.

Discussing with a coworker yesterday, they also pointed out the distinction I'd missed, which is that there are separate robotics groups doing research (Gemini) and applied work (Intrinsic? physicalintelligence.company; these are under the Alphabet or X projects umbrella, I infer? Really haven't paid attention.)