Gemini 4 Argon watches video, lands 7 straight cornhole shots on Apollo 2 humanoid
Google DeepMind · youtube · 2026-10-13
Google DeepMind demonstrated a Video-to-Sim-to-Real pipeline: Gemini 4 Argon watched a video of a human playing cornhole, built a MuJoCo simulation, and computed the physics and whole-body control for Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid — which then landed seven consecutive shots in the real world.
The pipeline compresses weeks of manual modeling into a few hours, turning ordinary videos into an endless training ground for physical AI.
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