Morning Edition · Friday, July 31, 2026Published at 2:00 AM EDT · New York
DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 2 Adds Video Progress Tracking and Multi-Robot Coordination
The embodied-reasoning model reports 57.4 percent accuracy on continuous progress classification and 91.3 percent on moment finding, orchestrating actions while delegating motor control to lower-level policies.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that acts as a high-level planner. It streams video, audio, and text to orchestrate actions in real time while delegating motor execution to lower-level vision-langu…
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Robotics Foundation Models for Embodied AI
Over the coming months, labs ship general-purpose robotics model suites that bridge vision-language understanding to physical navigation and manipulation, pushing foundation models into embodied action.
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