Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

Source: The Next Web· Ana Maria Constantin· July 30, 2026

Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate sever…

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