Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to Power Robots of All Shapes
The Decoder · rss · 2026-08-01
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language-action (VLA) model to date.
The model is designed to control robots of all shapes, ranging from tabletop arms to full-body humanoids. Additionally, the newly added Gemini Robotics ER 2 features a higher-level reasoning layer specifically for handling complex robotics tasks.
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