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Re: Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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Post by nl » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

qsera wrote: post #572

ACCount37 wrote: post #571

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off the top of my head: https://www.pi.website/blog/pi07

As I suspected you are fooled by this video and imagine it to be capable of much more than what is shown. This video is pretty non-marketing and is quite straight to the point. But that does not prevent you from being awed! So What is LLM is used here for? It is used for mere translation between different robots. So it is mostly symbolic translation. What I am talking about is to translation LLM inference directly to…

https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v060#molmoact2

Read the command line prompt: --task="pick up the red cube"

Re: Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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Post by preg_match » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

JeremyNT wrote: post #258

xnx wrote: post #133

While Anthropic and Open AI get 80% of the attention here, it's impressive to see how much Google is doing: near frontier model, fast models, open weight models, image generation, video generation, music generation, robotics, etc.

It's certainly an odd situation where Google is on the forefront of all these emerging technologies while the latest chatbots from OpenAI and Anthropic are getting breathless press releases and wildly hyperbolic coverage ("rogue AIs" "too dangerous, must be banned" etc...) Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away, meanwhile the hype cycle is propping up its upstart competitors to tr…

I think it’s because, right now, THE use case for LLMs is computer programming. Everything else has been deranked. And openAI and Anthropic make good models for specifically computer programming.

I think LLMs might have other use cases, but all the ones that were dreamt up basically disappeared.

Re: Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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Post by uejfiweun » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

Rebuff5007 wrote: post #45

uejfiweun wrote: post #7

It's funny how Google is essentially trying to compete with the software side of Tesla only - Waymos (which AFAIK they plan to partner with major automakers), now this, etc.

Bizarre oversimplification. For both manipulation and autonomous driving, google has invested in approaches with custom hardware, and off-the-shelf hardware, and a blend (which is what waymo is).

Bizarre! Love it :)