Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied-reasoning model
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
What happened
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2, positioned as the robot's high-level brain: it converses with people, understands the physical world, and plans multi-step tasks before handing execution to a lower-level VLA model. It can also call tools such as Google Search natively.
Why it matters
The official release gives concrete figures for ER 2's progress classification and temporal localization, along with access details, helping readers assess its limits on long tasks.
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