{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2","date":"2026-07-30","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 family with whole-body humanoid control","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (DeepMind blog)","url":"https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"deepmind.google"},{"n":2,"title":"Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Google blog)","url":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/gemini-robotics-er-2/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"blog.google"},{"n":3,"title":"Gemini Robotics ER 2 model card","url":"https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-robotics-er-2/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"deepmind.google"},{"n":4,"title":"SiliconANGLE: DeepMind debuts Gemini Robotics 2 for humanoid robots","url":"https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/30/google-deepmind-debuts-gemini-robotics-2-model-series-humanoid-robots/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"siliconangle.com"},{"n":5,"title":"MarkTechPost: three physical AI models","url":"https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/30/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-whole-body-control-dexterity-multi-robot-collaboration/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"marktechpost.com"},{"n":6,"title":"Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (video)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSQnrMC6nY","type":"video","group":"reactions","domain":"youtube.com"}],"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind"],"title":"Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 family with whole-body humanoid control","summary":"On 30 July 2026 Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 — a VLA model for whole-body humanoid control and dexterous manipulation, the Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied-reasoning \"brain\" (public in the Gemini API), and a lightweight On-Device 2 model that adapts to new robot bodies in hours. Partners include Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Franka and Agile Robots.","key_facts":["Three models: Gemini Robotics 2 (vision-language-action), Gemini Robotics ER 2 (embodied reasoning), Gemini Robotics On-Device 2","Whole-body control: walking, crouching and manipulating; multi-fingered hands and grippers; multi-robot collaboration; tasks lasting several minutes","ER 2 adds real-time video understanding, task-progress tracking, tool calls and low-latency orchestration via the Live API","ER 2 moment-finding accuracy 91.3% (mean abs. error 0.96 s) at ~4x the speed of the previous generation (per third-party summary of Google's numbers)","API IDs: gemini-robotics-er-2-preview and gemini-robotics-er-2-streaming-preview; ER 1.6 preview shut down 2026-08-31","Partners: Apptronik (Apollo 2), Franka Duo, Boston Dynamics, Agile Robots; VLA and On-Device via early-access program"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["robotics","vla","embodied-reasoning","humanoids","gemini-robotics"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nGoogle DeepMind announced its second-generation robotics foundation models. Gemini Robotics 2 converts vision and language into motor control for humanoids and bi-arm robots, now including whole-body control; ER 2 plans multi-step tasks, talks to humans and coordinates several robots; On-Device 2 runs locally and adapts to new embodiments quickly. ER 2 is publicly available to developers in the Gemini API/AI Studio; the VLA models are limited to partners.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt moves Google's robotics stack from tabletop arm manipulation to general-purpose humanoid bodies, with a hosted \"robot brain\" API developers can use today — a key piece in the 2026 race for physical AI.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026/","date":"2026-05-19","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark agent and Antigravity 2.0","deck":null,"takeaway":"3.5 Flash marked the moment Google's cheap tier overtook its previous flagship (3.1 Pro) on agentic coding benchmarks, and it opened a run of four Flash releases in ~106 days.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":6,"official":5,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[{"id":"gemini-robotics-2-whole-body-intelligence","title":"Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/gemini-robotics-2-whole-body-intelligence/"},{"id":"gemini-robotics-2-whole-body-control","title":"Intelligent whole-body control with Gemini Robotics 2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/gemini-robotics-2-whole-body-control/"},{"id":"introducing-gemini-robotics-2-google-for-developers","title":"Introducing Gemini Robotics 2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/introducing-gemini-robotics-2-google-for-developers/"}],"models":[{"id":"gemini-robotics-2","name":"Gemini Robotics 2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-robotics-2/"},{"id":"gemini-robotics-er-2","name":"Gemini Robotics ER 2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-robotics-er-2/"},{"id":"gemini-robotics-on-device-2","name":"Gemini Robotics On-Device 2","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-robotics-on-device-2/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":91,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":30,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":121,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":60,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics"}