KEY POINTS
- Gemini Robotics 2.5 shows a 30 to 100 percent higher success rate and is 20 to 30 percent faster than the previous version in lab tests.
- Apptronik Apollo 2 robots running the model kitted automotive parts in European Mercedes-Benz factories with a 96 percent success rate.
- DeepMind released ASIMOV-Jailbreak, an open source set of 1,500 prompts meant to test the safety of physical AI.
Google DeepMind has introduced version 2.5 of its Gemini Robotics platform, which it describes as moving closer to matching human performance on real-world tasks. Ars Technica reported that the release arrives together with an open source safety benchmark called ASIMOV-Jailbreak.