ROBOTICS

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now publicly available via the Gemini API. It watches live video feeds to track task progress, orchestrates VLA models as tools, and coordinates multiple robots. The numbers: 57.4% progress classification, 91.3% moment finding at 0.96s offset.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 family gives humanoid robots whole-body control, dexterous hands, and multi-robot teamwork - with an ER 2 model devs can try today. The HN thread (575 points, 459 comments) debated how real the progress is.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a single multimodal model trained jointly on images, video, and audio that also drives robots on Audi production lines. Here is what it does, how it works, and how to try it.

Mistral's new 8B parameter model enables robots to navigate complex environments using only a camera and natural language commands. Here's what it does, how it works, and what the benchmarks actually mean.