DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.5, a vision-language-action model it says is much better at high-dexterity tasks, evaluated across more than 200 activities including serving food with tongs and using a pipette. The platform pairs Gemini Embodied Reasoning, which plans tasks from instructions and live video, with the VLA that generates robot actions; some Gemini robots did actual work in Mercedes-Benz factories. Google also showed Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid with Gemini Robotics 2.5 tying a bow with its five-fingered hands, and the team is preparing an open source safety benchmark for robots working alongside humans.