Google Cloud opens Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied reasoning model in public preview
Google Cloud announced public preview availability of Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 (ER 2) on the Gemini platform for enterprises. The model serves as a high-level reasoning layer for robots, combining spatio-temporal video understanding, long-horizon planning, and safety guardrails. It can orchestrate low-level control interfaces such as VLA models and navigation APIs, verify task progress, and coordinate multi-robot teams. The post describes simulation, training, and deployment workflows on Google Cloud and includes customer quotes.
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Google Cloud announced public preview availability of Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 (ER 2) on the Gemini platform for enterprises. The model serves as a high-level reasoning layer for robots, combining spatio-temporal video understanding, long-horizon planning, and safety guardrails. It can orchestrate low-level control interfaces such as VLA models and navigation APIs, verify task progress, and coordinate multi-robot teams. The post describes simulation, training, and deployment workflows on Google Cloud and includes customer quotes.
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- ER 2 is available in public preview via Model Garden on the Gemini platform.
- The model reports 91.3% accuracy pinpointing critical event frames, with a 0.96-second mean absolute frame distance.
- Developers can declare VLA models, navigation APIs, or custom functions as tools for the model to orchestrate.
- Workflows span simulation in MuJoCo-Warp and NVIDIA Isaac Sim, training of VLA models, and edge deployment with Google Distributed Cloud.
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Google Cloud's Oct 27 post (co-written by DeepMind robotics head Carolina Parada) says Gemini Robotics ER 2, the high-level 'robot brain' model from Gemini Robotics 2, is now in public preview on the Gemini platform. Enterprises get Google Cloud security, multi-agent orchestration and lifecycle tools to simulate, evaluate and deploy robot agents. An availability step, not a new model.
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Bringing embodied reasoning models into enterprise cloud tooling lowers the barrier for companies to build and manage physical AI agents, with security controls and fleet telemetry integrated into existing cloud infrastructure.
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