Google’s New Model Makes Robotic Brains Slightly Smarter
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Earlier this week, Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER-1.6, a new vision and language model to help robots make sense of their surroundings. To show off its capabilities, Boston Dynamics - which has an agreement to use Gemini in its humanoid robots - published a video of its robot dogs using the model to read a thermometer during an inspection of an industrial facility.