{"slug": "google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body", "title": "Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body", "summary": "Google DeepMind announced on Thursday that its Gemini Robotics 2 AI model can now control entire humanoid robots, enabling whole-body motions from feet to fingertips. The update allows robots like Apptronik's Apollo 2 to walk, crouch, stretch, and manipulate objects, and supports more complex five-fingered hands for tasks like sealing a Ziploc or unscrewing a lightbulb. Google DeepMind also released Gemini Robotics ER 2, which it calls its safest robotics model to date, with improved human detection and multi-robot coordination.", "body_md": "Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can “control entire humanoid robots.” While the [previous model focused](/news/628021/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-ai-models) on controlling a humanoid robot’s upper body, [Gemini Robotics 2](https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-robotics/vla/) now supports “whole-body motions” ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an [announcement on Thursday](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/).\n\n# Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body\n\nGemini Robotics 2 controls a humanoid robot from ‘feet to fingertips.’\n\nGemini Robotics 2 controls a humanoid robot from ‘feet to fingertips.’\n\nThe new model will allow humanoid robots to perform a wider range of actions, as it allows them to walk, crouch, stretch, and manipulate objects. Videos shared by Google show how Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot can [bend over to pick up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBftSI5mmHA) a watering can, as well as find and take specific items off a shelf.\n\nThough Google DeepMind notes that its robots “have more to advance in movement speed,” it adds that this update “is an important step towards the skills needed to complete more complex, real-world tasks that require whole-body coordination.”\n\nAdditionally, Gemini Robotics 2 supports better dexterity, as it can now control more complex, five-fingered hands. That enables robots to perform tasks like sealing a Ziploc, tying a trash bag, or unscrewing a lightbulb.\n\nGoogle DeepMind is updating Gemini Robotics ER (embodied reasoning) as well, a vision-language model that helps robots to analyze their surroundings, process instructions, and perform multi-step tasks. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is better at completing tasks over an extended period of time and “now understands when tasks begin and end.”\n\nGoogle DeepMind says this update also allows multiple robots of different types to work together and complete tasks, with [one video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTPDm7PKW0) showing how Apollo 2 instructs Google’s dual-arm robot to put tools inside a bin while cleaning the garage.\n\nThe company notes Gemini Robotics ER 2 is its “safest robotics model to date,” as it can “better detect when humans are nearby, trigger safety tool calls and bring the robot to a safe stop if someone approaches too closely.”\n\nMeanwhile, Google DeepMind has brought improvements to its Gemini Robotics On-Device Model, which [can run locally on a robot](/news/691882/google-deepmind-on-device-ai-robots-gemini) without an internet connection. This model can now adapt to new embodiments faster, including those with “drastically different shapes, sensors and degrees of freedom.”\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/973276/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-whole-body", "published_at": "2026-07-30 17:18:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 17:21:43.517746+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "robotics"], "entities": ["Google DeepMind", "Gemini Robotics 2", "Apptronik", "Apollo 2", "Gemini Robotics ER 2"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-deepminds-new-ai-model-can-control-a-robots-entire-body.jsonld"}}