Google’s new Gemini Robotics AI models are blowing my mind

When ChatGPT first arrived, we got a text-based chatbot that could attempt to reasonably answer any question, even if it got things wrong (it still does, as hallucinations have not disappeared). It didn't take long for the AI to gain new abilities. It could see things via photos and videos. It could hear humans speak and respond via its own voice.

The next step was to give the AI eyes and ears that could observe your surroundings in real-time. We already have smart glasses that do that, the Ray-Ban Meta model. Google and others are working on similar products. Apple might put cameras inside AirPods for the same reason.

The work will be complete when the AI has a body to be physically present around us and help us with all sorts of tasks that require handling real-life objects. I saw the writing on the wall months ago when I said I wanted humanoid AI robots for the home.

More recently, I saw the kind of AI model that would give robots the smarts to see and understand the physical world around them and interact with objects and actions they were never trained on. That was the Figure Helix Vision-Language-Action (VLA) for AI robots.

Unsurprisingly, others are working on similar technology, and Google just announced two Gemini Robotics models that blew my mind. Like the Figure tech, the Gemini Robotics AIs will help robots understand human commands, their surroundings, and what they need to do to perform the tasks humans give them.

We're still in the early days of AI robotics, and it'll be a while until the humanoid robot helper I want around the house is ready for mass consumption. But Google is already laying the groundwork for that future.

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