Google DeepMind Humanoid legs or wheeled rovers? Should robots be cracking eggs? Watch as the Google DeepMind team behind Gemini Robotics 2 shares their behind-the-scenes insights and stories ↓

For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can seamlessly step into our world and lend a hand. Today, we take a major stride toward making that dream a reality: Introducing Gemini Robotics 2 from @GoogleDeepMind, the intelligence layer powering the next generation of truly adaptable robots. This major advance unlocks intelligent whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and even multi-robot collaboration 🤯. Ok but... how does a robot actually "think"? Real-world tasks take time and planning. To manage that complexity, our new embodied reasoning model, Gemini Robotics ER 2, acts as the robot’s high-level brain, enhancing the robot’s capabilities to: — Observe the environment — Reason about the actions needed to complete the task — Coordinate with the vision-language-action model to carry out actions — Track progress until the job is done This setup allows robots to execute complex multi-step workflows, self-correct if a step fails, and adapt to completely novel situations. Learn more about Gemini Robotics ER 2 (and our two other brand new models) here:

The journey from mastering locomotion to achieving the delicate dexterity required to crack an egg represents a fascinating evolution in robotics. It is the bridge between navigating a space and truly interacting with its nuances. Whether through humanoid legs or wheeled rovers, the essence lies in translating complex intelligence into purposeful, graceful action. 🌿 In your perspective, which represents the greater milestone: mastering the environment or mastering the touch?

@GoogleDeepMind This is the exciting part — a model as the ‘intelligence layer’ for robots, not hand-coded behaviors. If the learning transfers across embodiments the way language models generalize, we’re looking at a genuinely different era of robotics. Can’t wait to see the behind-the-scenes.

@GoogleDeepMind The humanoid-vs-wheeled debate is really a bet on which environment robots will actually work in. Humanoid legs make sense if the world stays built for humans. Wheels make sense if you're willing to redesign the environment around the robot instead.

@GoogleDeepMind wheeled rovers crack eggs by accident legs just trip over the carton and call it a glitch

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@GoogleDeepMind Wheels until stairs. Hands until eggs. The practical breakthrough is a robot that cracks the egg and cleans the counter without being asked twice. Which everyday task produced the most surprising failure?

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