Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Physical AI Developer Guide (2026)

<h2> Why Decouple Reasoning from Motor Control </h2> <p>General-purpose robots have to pull off two very different jobs at once. They need to read a cluttered, full-room visual

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We’re powering an era of physical agents — enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools and act to better solve complex, multi-step tasks.

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<h2> The shift to hybrid reasoning architectures </h2> <p>For the past two years, engineering teams building production generative AI systems operated under a rigid architectural

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