At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced an AI partnership. The two companies will integrate the Gemini Robotics AI foundation model into the new Atlas robot, aiming to enable a wide variety of industrial tasks via humanoids. The partnership will begin with the automotive industry and is expected to lead the transformation of the manufacturing sector. Joint research is scheduled to begin at both companies' facilities within the coming months.
Alberto Rodriguez, Director of Robot Behavior for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, said that they chose DeepMind as a partner capable of establishing new vision-language-action models for complex robots. Carolina Parada, Senior Director of Robotics at Google DeepMind, stated that the Gemini Robotics models were developed with the goal of "bringing AI into the physical world."
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