While Google (and Verily) are getting a lot of the credit here, the underlying technology was developed by entomological researchers at the University of Kentucky [0] and the resulting company, MosquitoMate [1] partnered with Verily [2] to automate and scale the breeding of the sterilized male mosquitoes.

[0] - https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-research-spinoff-company-m...

[1] - https://mosquitomate.com/about-us/

[2] - https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-fi...