Google DeepMind Ships Three Physical AI Models For Whole Body Control, Dexterity And Multi Robot Collaboration

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots. The release moves the stack past table-top manipulation into whole body control, five finger dexterity and multi robot teamwork. It ships as three separate models with three different access tiers. Most robots today are pre-programmed or tele-operated for narrow, repetitive task sequences. They do not adapt to unpredictable environments, and skills rarely transfer between robot bodies. Gemini Robotics 2 targets all three limits at once. Three models ship together: a VLA, an embodied reasoning VLM, and an on-device VLA. One checkpoint drives Apollo 2 with two different hands plus a Franka…