By applying Gemini to robots, Google is moving closer to developing “general purpose robotics” that can field a variety of tasks, DeepMind engineer Kanishka Rao said in a media briefing. “Our worlds are super messy and dynamic and rich, and I think a general purpose intelligent robot needs to be able to deal with that messiness.”
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab is debuting two new models focused on robotics, which will help developers train robots to respond to unfamiliar scenarios — a longstanding challenge in the field.
Research unit Google DeepMind will release Gemini Robotics, a new branch of its flagship AI model aimed at developing robots that are more dexterous and interactive, it said Tuesday. Another model, Gemini Robotics-ER, specialises in spatial understanding, and will help robot makers build new programmes using Gemini’s reasoning capabilities.
