Google moved Gemini Robotics from upper-body demos toward whole-body control.
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2, describing a system that can control whole-body motions, five-fingered hands, longer multi-step tasks, and multi-robot collaboration. The Verge reported that demonstrations included Apptronik's Apollo 2 bending to pick up a watering can, selecting objects from shelves, and coordinating with another robot during a garage-cleaning task. Google also introduced ASIMOV-Agentic as a benchmark for safety orchestration and uncertainty handling.
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Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2, describing a system that can control whole-body motions, five-fingered hands, longer multi-step tasks, and multi-robot collaboration. The Verge reported that demonstrations included Apptronik's Apollo 2 bending to pick up a watering can, selecting objects from shelves, and coordinating with another robot during a garage-cleaning task. Google also introduced ASIMOV-Agentic as a benchmark for safety orchestration and uncertainty handling.
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The release is still mostly a lab-and-demo milestone. Google says movement speed needs to improve, and public videos do not establish reliability, workplace safety, recovery from rare failures, or cost at deployment scale. The safety benchmark is useful only if its results, limits, and failure examples become inspectable outside the company.
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Trusted-tester access, model cards and safety reports, incident and near-miss logging, performance under clutter and human proximity, whether Apptronik or other partners publish deployment evidence, and whether on-device control works reliably without cloud fallback.
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