In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, Google DeepMind revealed today. The robot uses the latest version of Google’s Gemini large language model to both parse commands and find its way around.
When told by a human “Find me somewhere to write,” for instance, the robot dutifully trundles off, leading the person to a pristine whiteboard located somewhere in the building.
Gemini’s ability to handle video and text—in addition to its capacity to ingest large amounts of information in the form
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