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Morning Edition · Friday, July 31, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 as a Reasoning Layer for Multi-Robot Tasks
The model reports 91.3 percent accuracy on finding the exact frame of a critical event in robot video and streams reasoning while robots keep acting.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model that acts as a high-level planner. It interprets the physical scene, breaks multi-step tasks into parts, and delegates motor execution to a lower-level vision-langua…
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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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