Alphabet Inc

Alphabet is a technology holding company with robotics relevance through Waymo, Wing, Intrinsic, Everyday Robots legacy work and Google AI infrastructure. Its exposure spans autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, industrial robot software, AI models, cloud tools and research that supports machine perception and autonomy.

Facts

Segment: AI Compute
Country: United States
Ticker: GOOGL
Website: https://abc.xyz/

Market context

Alphabet is not a robot OEM, but Google DeepMind gives it a major role in the AI model layer that can transfer reasoning, perception and action into physical robots.

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Financials

GOOGL - NASDAQ

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Timeline

2025-03-12 - Product Launch - Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER - Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics, a Gemini 2.0-based vision-language-action model designed to directly control robots. The release also introduced Gemini Robotics-ER for embodied reasoning, positioning the pair as a foundation for robots that… - source: deepmind.google
2018-11-14 - Org Change - Alphabet confirms closure of Schaft robotics unit - Alphabet confirmed on November 14, 2018 that the Schaft unit would be shuttered. The company was helping affected staff seek new roles, mostly outside Alphabet. Schaft remained Alphabet-owned because the previously announced SoftBank transfer never completed. - source: techcrunch.com
2017-06-09 - Acquisition - SoftBank agrees to acquire Schaft from Alphabet - SoftBank announced an agreement to acquire Schaft from Alphabet on June 9, 2017. The proposed transaction remained subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Later reporting confirmed the Schaft transfer failed because agreed… - source: group.softbank

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Team

Sundar Pichai - CEO, Alphabet and Google - Pichai leads Alphabet, including robotics-adjacent AI and moonshot assets.
Anat Ashkenazi - Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google - Ashkenazi is finance leadership for Alphabet.
Philipp Schindler - SVP and Chief Business Officer, Google - Schindler is commercial leadership for Google within Alphabet.

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Relations

Schaft - Acquisition - DARPA confirms Google acquisition of Schaft

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