Alphabet's Intrinsic open-sources ROS-compatible robotics stack Intrinsic Core
chrismatthieu · x · 2026-09-24
At ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Alphabet's Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core, an open-source ROS-compatible robotics environment under Apache 2.0—Alphabet's biggest robotics open-source contribution to date. The bundle includes hardware-agnostic real-time control, Nvidia FoundationPose-based pose estimation, motion and grasp planning, simulation/calibration services, and Intrinsic-ROS drivers.
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