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I’ve been itching to share this part of my work publicly.
The robustness and precision of Gemini Robotics 2 surpassed our own expectations- note the recovery behaviours, the generality of the solutions, untangling complex kinematic states. Uninterrupted 20 mins.
Here’s a first look at Gemini Robotics 2 from @GoogleDeepMind on the FR3 Duo: 20 minutes of uninterrupted, real-time tool kitting.
Notice the emergent recovery behaviours - generalized dexterity & precision at a whole new level.
More demos dropping over the next days! Stay tuned!
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#Gemini 4 Argon can zero-shot control different robot types, and stop to think in sim when it gets tough. Love this example on Boston Dynamics #Spot robot 🦿 ✨ . Listen to its thinking! 🔊
Prompt your robot: lnkd.in/gX9NeEjx
@GoogleDeepMind Robotics
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We are offering 10,000 scientists the highest usage tier in Google Antigravity free of charge for 6 months. Please apply! forms.gle/WvmBbPvRbpKG1BPn9
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We asked #Gemini 4 Argon to explain how it figured out how to play cornhole with @Apptronik's Apollo - here it is in its own words 🤯. This is transformative for Physical AI 🦾.
Try it yourself at : lnkd.in/g9WyK_CC
Learn more: lnkd.in/gX9NeEjx
@GoogleDeepMind #Robotics
Gemini 4 Argon is really really good, it's generally available now and I am super excited to see the range of things that can come out from using it!
the things we can do with Gemini 4 Argon are incredible, I have been consistently blowing my own mind over and over again lately... I can only encourage you to give it a try!
Gemini 4 Argon is a step change and will have massive impact on robotics. We have published a developer blog to show various ways in which Argon accelerates robotics.
developers.googleblog.com/ge…
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We are hiring a research scientist in Pretraining and Data Quality at @GoogleDeepMind Robotics in London (among several roles)!
If you, like me, strongly believe that data quality and mixtures are some of the most important ingredients for any robotics learning recipe, please apply.
Whether your background is in robot policy learning or in scaling multimodal pre-training & data mixtures (eg VLMs, world models) and you want to bring that rigor to real-world robots—we’d love to talk.
Feel free to reach out with any questions! google.com/about/careers/app…
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All evals run on the largest independent FR3 Duo farm, with 3D scene understanding & object tracking - all in Europe, at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.
Connect via a remote policy server. Get fully annotated rollouts within 30 minutes of the run’s end.
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Mind blowing
We love it when customers build robot applications we didn’t see coming. Hats off, RenewIT! 💪
• 0.4mm precision from one demo
• RenewIT started with HDDs, then built a keyboard workflow
• New screw patterns taught in as little as 10 minutes
Full story: reimaginerobotics.ai/blog/re…
Spot on! The real bottleneck in physical AI isn't just model architecture - it's the data pipeline. Relying on top-tier researchers to babysit data collection keeps robotics trapped in the lab. Scaling demands accessible, repeatable, high quality data collection workflows.
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Pushing the frontier of robot dexterity @GoogleDeepMind with Gemini Robotics 2: youtu.be/O9-650iHAls?si=wRFi…
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Excited to share what we've been working on! 🤖
With Gemini Robotics 2 we can bridge the sim2real gap and learn new tasks entirely from simulation!
Here it is performing an automotive kitting task, handling bimanual grasping, 3D reorientations, and tight insertions. 👇
Gemini Robotics 2 can also generalise to a range of scenes including out of distribution ones while maintaining it's precision. Notice how it also works across different heights and 3D poses.
Todor Davchev retweeted
Gemini Robotics 2 is here, with our new suite of models, robots can now reason through every movement to manage tasks that weren’t possible before, like tying delicate knots - and even team up to solve complex workflows. Huge congrats to the robotics team on this great milestone!
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We got many comments saying the release videos are cool, but do the models actually work?
We stress tested Gemini Robotics 2 to show its impressive robustness and recovery capabilities.
It's amazing to see how it keeps trying until the task is done
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#GeminiRobotics ER 2 is our high level physical agent, including multi-agent coordination! 🦾
ER 2 gives you the spatial and reasoning capabilities of massive frontier models (like Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol), but with the sub-second latency and cost efficiency required.🧠
And it is an amazing HRI model. ❤️
check it out->blog.google/innovation-and-a…
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is our most capable embodied reasoning model designed for physical AI 🤖
Built as a high-level brain for robotics, the model connects directly to the Gemini Live API. It processes continuous video streams to track progress, call tools, search the web, and command an action model in real time.
Upgrades for developers include:
+ Enhanced progress tracking
+ Real-time mid-execution failure detection
+ Multi-robot collaboration
+ Advanced safety instruction following
Among all fantastic contributions that are part of our new release, perhaps the closest one to my heart is the gripper level dexterity we can get out of our GR2 models 🤖
To be genuinely useful in our homes and workplaces, robots need finesse.
Gemini Robotics 2 equips different hardware platforms with high dexterity. It can control a five-fingered hand to tie a knot or screw in a lightbulb - while also managing parallel grippers for complex packing tasks.
We’re additionally introducing multi-robot collaboration so completely different types of robots can communicate and work together to solve problems a single robot couldn’t do alone. 🤝
Find out more → goo.gle/3Tvi61l
Todor Davchev retweeted
Very excited to be working together with our friends at Agile Robots to bring Gemini Robotics breakthroughs to their incredibly capable and reliable hw and to solve real problems in real environments!
Google DeepMind 🤝 Agile Robots
Our new research partnership will integrate the Gemini foundation models with their hardware to help build the next generation of more helpful and useful robots.
Find out more → goo.gle/4lKu7de
Todor Davchev retweeted
Google DeepMind 🤝 Agile Robots
Our new research partnership will integrate the Gemini foundation models with their hardware to help build the next generation of more helpful and useful robots.
Find out more → goo.gle/4lKu7de