{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-robotics-er-2/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-robotics-er-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":"gemini-robotics-er-2","name":"Gemini Robotics ER 2","org":"Google DeepMind","family":"Gemini Robotics","released":"2026-07-30","status":"preview","type":"robotics","modality_in":["text","image","video","audio"],"modality_out":["text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":131072,"max_output":65536,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"input":1,"output":5,"unit":"per 1M tokens (text/image/video/audio input); introductory rate through 2026-12-31, rising to $2.00 in / $10.00 out from 2027-01-01; Batch API half price","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"},"price_line":"$1 in, $5 out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"Gemini API","model_id":"gemini-robotics-er-2-preview","endpoint":"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-robotics-er-2-preview:generateContent","docs":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-robotics-er-2-preview"},{"provider":"Gemini API (Live API, streaming)","model_id":"gemini-robotics-er-2-streaming-preview","docs":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-robotics-er-2-streaming-preview"},{"provider":"Google AI Studio","url":"https://aistudio.google.com"},{"provider":"Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Google Cloud, private preview)","docs":"https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/gemini/gemini-robotics-er"},{"provider":"Sample code (GitHub)","url":"https://github.com/google-gemini/robotics-samples"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Embodied reasoning \"robot brain\" in a public API","detail":"Spatial reasoning (points, boxes, trajectories), multi-step task planning, tool/function calling and code execution to orchestrate a robot's VLA or controller; publicly callable, unlike the VLA models.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/robotics-overview"},{"name":"Continuous video monitoring and task-progress tracking","detail":"Watches video feeds to track progress and adapt; Google reports 91.3% moment-finding accuracy (0.96 s mean absolute distance) at ~4x the speed of the previous generation and 57.4% progress classification.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/gemini-robotics-er-2/"},{"name":"Low-latency streaming via Live API","detail":"Separate gemini-robotics-er-2-streaming-preview id supports bidirectional audio/video streaming with function calling and thinking (no caching, code execution or structured output).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/robotics-streaming"},{"name":"Multi-robot collaboration","detail":"Coordinates heterogeneous robots (e.g. wheeled rovers and humanoids, Boston Dynamics Spot demo) to communicate and hand off tasks.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/gemini-robotics-er-2/"}],"entry":"2026-07-30-gemini-robotics-2","notes":"Vision-language model for robotics (outputs text/JSON, not motor commands). 131,072 input / 65,536 output tokens. 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