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At Boston Robotics Summit, Brian Gerkey Issues Rallying Cry for Open-Source Robotics Robotics

At Boston Robotics Summit, Brian Gerkey Issues Rallying Cry for Open-Source Robotics

The 2026 Robotics Summit opens May 27-28 in Boston. Intrinsic CTO Brian Gerkey's Wednesday keynote argues open-source ROS must absorb the VLA architectural shift — or become a legacy layer under NVIDIA Isaac, Gemini Robotics, and Physical Intelligence's proprietary stacks. The fight is for the platform layer of an industry whose hardware just commoditised.

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Fanuc + Google, May 14: World's Largest Industrial Robot-Arm Maker Strikes a 1.1 Million-Unit Retrofit Deal with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise) and Alphabet's Intrinsic (Flowstate) — Tokyo Shares Spike +15.6% to an All-Time High of ¥8,880 in a Single Session, the Brownfield Counter-Bet to Every Greenfield Humanoid Pitch Robotics

Fanuc + Google, May 14: World's Largest Industrial Robot-Arm Maker Strikes a 1.1 Million-Unit Retrofit Deal with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise) and Alphabet's Intrinsic (Flowstate) — Tokyo Shares Spike +15.6% to an All-Time High of ¥8,880 in a Single Session, the Brownfield Counter-Bet to Every Greenfield Humanoid Pitch

Fanuc announced a Google Cloud + Intrinsic partnership to bring Gemini Enterprise and Flowstate to its 1.1M installed industrial robots — Tokyo shares rallied +15.6% to a record ¥8,880, validating the brownfield retrofit thesis.

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