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Morning Edition · Thursday, November 12, 2026Published at 1:18 AM EST · New York
Gemini Robotics 2.5 sorts metal parts with 96% success on Mercedes-Benz assembly lines
DeepMind reports success rates 30% to 100% higher than the prior version across more than 200 tasks. The model goes only to partners including Apptronik, Agile Robots and Boston Dynamics.
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2.5, the latest version of its vision-language-action (VLA) model. The model takes camera images and a text instruction and controls a robot's arms and grippers directly, as the Russian-language cha…
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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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