- Google DeepMind has unveiled a version of Gemini that can control humanoid robots for the first time.
- The Gemini Robotics 2 system brings “intelligent whole-body control”, allowing humanoids to perform tasks autonomously, with a video showing robots screwing in light bulbs and typing up bin bags.
- Gemini Robotics 2 combines a vision language model (VLM) with two vision language action (VLA) models, facilitating communication with humans and environmental understanding.
- Google DeepMind described its release as a “milestone” towards achieving physical AGI (artificial general intelligence), whereby robots have human-level abilities.
- Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, wrote in a blog post detailing the new AI model: “For the first time, our model can now control entire humanoid robots, translating intent into intelligent whole-body control.”
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