{"id":125317,"date":"2026-07-31T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/125317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:49:11","slug":"googles-new-ai-gives-robots-better-balance-smarter-hands-and-teamwork-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/125317\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new AI gives robots better balance, smarter hands, and teamwork capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind just brought sci-fi robots closer to reality, and it is very exciting. Building on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/phones\/gemini-might-soon-drive-futuristic-robots-can-do-your-chores\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original Gemini Robotics model<\/a>, the company has <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/gemini-robotics\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">introduced Gemini Robotics 2<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> system designed to help robots think, move, and even work together. Unlike most robots today, which rely on pre-programmed routines or someone controlling them remotely, this new system lets robots figure things out on their own when situations get unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>Can robots finally handle whole-body tasks?<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Google\u2019s robotics models mostly handled tabletop tasks using a robot\u2019s upper body. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/topic\/google-gemini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini<\/a> Robotics 2 changes that by controlling the entire humanoid, from its feet all the way to its fingertips. In one demo, Apptronik\u2019s Apollo 2 robot was asked to place a watering can into a bin on a bottom shelf. The robot walked over, picked up the can, crossed the room, and set it down exactly where it belonged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Apollo-robot-picking-up-a-watering-can.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo robot picking up a watering can\" class=\"wp-image-5994506\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tGoogle DeepMind<\/p>\n<p>The model also brings noticeably better dexterity. It can control a five-fingered robotic hand well enough to tie a knot, seal a zip-lock bag, or unscrew a bulb, and it works just as smoothly with simple two-fingered grippers for tasks like packing and sorting. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/topic\/google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> is introducing a reasoning model called Gemini Robotics ER 2, which basically acts as the robot\u2019s project manager. It breaks down instructions, keeps track of multi-minute tasks, and can even get multiple robots to coordinate on the same job. There\u2019s also an on-device version built for robots without internet access, which can adapt to a brand-new robot body in just a few hours using as few as 200 examples.<\/p>\n<p>What makes these robots safer to work with?<\/p>\n<p>Safety got real attention this time around. Google introduced a new benchmark, ASIMOV-Agentic, to test whether robots know when to refuse a risky action or ask a human for help instead. Gemini Robotics ER 2 can also sense when someone gets too close and bring the robot to a safe stop. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is already live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/forget-scrolling-forever-google-tv-is-fixing-how-you-find-something-to-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google AI Studio<\/a>, while the rest of the models are currently rolling out to early access partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind just brought sci-fi robots closer to reality, and it is very exciting. Building on its original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,25,10267,132,1429,7543,377],"class_list":["post-125317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-emerging-tech","tag-google","tag-google-ai","tag-google-deepmind","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}