The corporate shakeup at Google continues and now it’s Andy Rubin, the former head of the company’s Android business and the current head of its robotics arm, who’s out.

A Google spokesperson confirmed to Computerworld Thursday night that Rubin is leaving the company, but declined to say how his departure might affect Google’s robotics efforts.

“I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next,” Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page said in a statement. “With Android, he created something truly remarkable — with a billion-plus happy users. Thank you.”

Rubin joined Google in 2005 after the company bought Android Inc., the business he had founded. He acted as a senior vice president in charge of Android for about eight years, taking on Apple’s iPhones and building the Android brand into the world’s most popular mobile operating system

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