Gemini watches Genie 4 render frame-by-frame to simulate Apollo humanoid playing checkers
chrisfirst · x · 2026-10-28
Google paired Gemini with Genie 4: Gemini inspects each rendered frame, breaks a goal into steps, and verifies every step. The combo, using Gemini 4 Argon, simulated Apptronik's Apollo humanoid playing checkers one step at a time — a glimpse of world models plus multimodal reasoning for robot simulation.
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