Google Unveils Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World with General Purpose Robots

Google Announces Gemini Robotics for Building General Purpose Robots

Overview:

• Date: March 12, 2025
• Announcement: Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics to bring AI into the physical world, enabling robots to perform a wide range of real-world tasks.

*Key Points:

• Goal: Develop general-purpose robots that can adapt to different situations, understand and respond quickly to instructions, and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity.
• Technological Basis: Gemini Robotics is built on Gemini 2.0, a vision-language-action (VLA) model enhanced to control robots physically.
• *Principal Qualities:
  • Generality: Can handle new objects, diverse instructions, and environments, including tasks not seen during training.
  • Interactivity: Responds to commands in everyday language and multiple languages.
  • Dexterity: Performs complex tasks requiring precise manipulation, such as origami folding or packing a snack into a Ziploc bag.
• Enhancements: Introduction of Gemini Robotics-ER, which improves spatial reasoning for robotics.
• Examples: The model can intuitively grasp objects like coffee mugs and plan safe trajectories.
• Collaborations: Trusted testers include Agile Robots, Agility Robots, Boston Dynamics, and Enchanted Tools.