Gemini 4 watches one video, Apollo 2 robot sinks 7 straight cornhole shots
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-10-20
Google DeepMind showed Gemini 4 Argon a video of a human playing cornhole; Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid then sank seven consecutive shots on real hardware. The model watched the demo, mapped the environment, autonomously built a MuJoCo simulation, and generated whole-body joint movements — compressing weeks of manual sim modeling into hours. Argon also generated 4,500+ simulated episodes for VLA fine-tuning, raising real-world task success from 56% to 75%.
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