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DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
Google DeepMind has revealed a new generation of the AI-powered Gemini Robotics platform. In the 2.5 release, Google says its robotic AI is getting tantalizingly close to completing real-world tasks as well as humans do. In fact, some Gemini robots were able to get actual work done in Mercedes-Benz factories, and the team is preparing for a day when robots operate alongside humans with an open source safety benchmark.
DeepMind’s physical AI platform has several computational layers between user input and robotic action. There’s the vision-language model piece, which is Gemini Embodied Reasoning. Essentially, it takes your instructions and uses live video to plan how the robot can accomplish the task. The other main component is the vision-language-action (VLA) that actually generates robot actions, like moving an actuator, that’s Gemini Robotics, which has been bumped to version 2.5.
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