Robotics Google's robot brain unscrews a bulb 92% of the time
DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, announced July 30, controls a humanoid from feet to fingertips — and its own benchmark chart shows grippers still beating five-fingered hands.
New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, announced July 30, controls a humanoid from feet to fingertips — and its own benchmark chart shows grippers still beating five-fingered hands.
Robotics The 2026 Robotics Summit opens May 27-28 in Boston. Intrinsic CTO Brian Gerkey's Wednesday keynote argues open-source ROS must absorb the VLA architectural shift — or become a legacy layer under NVIDIA Isaac, Gemini Robotics, and Physical Intelligence's proprietary stacks. The fight is for the platform layer of an industry whose hardware just commoditised.