According to @GoogleDeepMind, the company has entered a research partnership with Agile Robots to integrate Gemini foundation models into Agile Robots’ hardware to develop the next generation of more helpful and useful robots, as reported by Google DeepMind on X and the linked announcement page. According to Google DeepMind, embedding Gemini into robotic control stacks can enable multimodal perception, instruction following, and real‑time planning for manipulation tasks, improving productivity and adaptability in factories and logistics. As reported by Google DeepMind, the collaboration targets practical deployment by combining Agile Robots’ industrial-grade systems with Gemini’s reasoning and vision-language capabilities, creating opportunities for solution providers to offer AI-enabled pick-and-place, quality inspection, and assembly services. According to Google DeepMind, this partnership underscores a broader trend of pairing large multimodal models with robotics hardware, signaling new business models in robotics-as-a-service and retrofits of existing robotic cells with foundation model intelligence.