{"id":553864,"date":"2026-08-01T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:16:14","slug":"google-reveals-gemini-robotics-2-0-promising-improved-dexterity-and-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553864\/","title":{"rendered":"Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robots powered by Google\u2019s Gemini AI models are now more capable. With the debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini Robotics 2<\/a>, these physical bots can now accomplish more complex tasks, continuously analyze changing environments, and collaborate with other robots. This is thanks to a trio of new sub-models, one of which is <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.google.dev\/gemini-api\/docs\/robotics-overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publicly available<\/a> for developers starting today.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of robots running, dancing, and backflipping have been a staple of the Internet for years, but these machines were programmed to perform these very narrow tasks. The goal of Gemini robotics is to create a generalist robot, one that can do anything a human could do. Google DeepMind scientists sometimes call this \u201cphysical AGI.\u201d Essentially, you tell a robot what to do, and it does it. With the 2.0 release, Google says its robotics AI can control an entire humanoid robot with improved dexterity, even for machines with complex humanoid hands.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole-body intelligence to robots.<\/p>\n<p>This starts with Gemini Robotics ER 2, an upgraded \u201cembodied reasoning\u201d model that DeepMind claims is a significant leap over the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/04\/robot-dogs-now-read-gauges-and-thermometers-using-google-gemini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous 1.6 release<\/a>. It\u2019s integrated with the Gemini Live API, giving developers the opportunity to experience that supposed leap forward.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini Robotics ER 2 is what\u2019s known as a vision language model (VLM). It\u2019s designed to understand instructions and the world around it. The big upgrade here is that ER 2 can process live video feeds from the robot\u2019s cameras, allowing the system to track progress as the robot lumbers from one step to the next. Google notes that Gemini Robotics ER 2 can classify video frame completeness with almost 60 percent accuracy. That\u2019s still far from perfect, but it\u2019s much better than the 1.6 release or what you can get with the visual understanding of competing AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robots powered by Google\u2019s Gemini AI models are now more capable. With the debut of Gemini Robotics 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-553864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}