Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a reasoning model that enhances robot autonomy through improved spatial and physical understanding. The model introduces instrument-reading capabilities and can call external tools like Google Search and vision-language-action models to execute tasks. It's available to developers via the Gemini API.
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a reasoning model that gives robots spatial understanding, instrument-reading, and external tool-calling for autonomous task execution.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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