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with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots.

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Gemini Robotics, the first of the two AI models, is an advanced vision-language-action (VLA) model which was built using the Gemini 2.0 model. It has a new output modality of “physical actions” which ...

Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work ...