Google DeepMind has demonstrated a new robotics training technique in which its Gemini 4 Argon AI model learns a physical task by watching video and then transfers the resulting behavior to Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot.
The demonstration forms part of the launch of Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s latest frontier AI model, which the company says combines visual-semantic reasoning, physical understanding and autonomous code generation for robotics applications.
In an internal test, Argon was shown raw video of a person playing cornhole. The model analyzed the environment, mapped its spatial coordinates and calculated the whole-body joint movements required to perform the task. [Read more…] about Google DeepMind uses Gemini 4 Argon to teach Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid new skills from video