Genie 4 can imagine a robot's whole day — but robots can't train in it yet
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-28
A robotics practitioner's read of Google DeepMind's Genie 4 (announced Oct 27): type a scene, walk through it with keyboard controls, and steer it with text in real time — the world responds with physics, ambient sound, and talking people. The clip that matters most for robot builders: an Apptronik Apollo humanoid playing checkers inside a live-generated world while a Gemini model plans each step. The author's core point — Genie 4 can imagine a robot's whole day, but robots can't actually train in it yet — and what that gap means for robotics.
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