We’re rolling out an upgrade designed to help robots reason about...
Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind
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Apr 21, 2026
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We’re rolling out an upgrade designed to help robots reason about the physical world. 🤖
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 has significantly better visual and spatial understanding in order to plan and complete more useful tasks. Here’s why this is important 🧵
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 has significantly better visual and spatial understanding in order to plan and complete more useful tasks. Here’s why this is important 🧵
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 enables robots to better pinpoint objects in an image.
Ask it to find tools in a cluttered workshop, and it can accurately identify and count the right items while ignoring things that aren't present.
Ask it to find tools in a cluttered workshop, and it can accurately identify and count the right items while ignoring things that aren't present.
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The model knows when a task is complete to determine whether to retry it or move on - thanks to its multi-view reasoning and the ability to fuse live camera streams to understand a full scene.
Watch it process multiple angles to confirm if the job is done ↓
Watch it process multiple angles to confirm if the job is done ↓
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A key strength: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 combines spatial reasoning, world knowledge, and agentic vision to allow robots to read a variety of instruments.
See how it reads an analogy gauge right down to sub tick accuracy ↓
See how it reads an analogy gauge right down to sub tick accuracy ↓
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Industrial inspection is a massive visual challenge.
When robots like Spot from @BostonDynamics patrols a facility, it captures images of complex analog dials. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the upgrade that could process these, writing its own code to account for camera distortion and calculate exact tick marks.
When robots like Spot from @BostonDynamics patrols a facility, it captures images of complex analog dials. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the upgrade that could process these, writing its own code to account for camera distortion and calculate exact tick marks.
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This is also our safest robotics model yet.
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 understands physical constraints like avoiding liquids or items over 20kg when carrying out instructions. It is also 10% better at detecting human injury risks in videos.
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 understands physical constraints like avoiding liquids or items over 20kg when carrying out instructions. It is also 10% better at detecting human injury risks in videos.
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Ready to build smarter robots?
The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API. Find out more → goo.gle/4dGSh6y
The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API. Find out more → goo.gle/4dGSh6y
