From Slam Dunks to Salad-Making, Google’s Gemini Robots Are Coming for Everyday Life

Google DeepMind has unveiled its new family of AI Gemini 2.0 models designed for multimodal robots.To prove just how far these robots have come, DeepMind put them to the test: One robot grabbed a ball, took aim, and performed a slam dunk into a basketball hoop — something it had never done before. The feat was particularly noteworthy because, although the robots had been trained to understand natural language, the motion required sophisticated coordination.Carolina Parada, senior director