Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity

November 10, 2026 Models

Carolina Parada

We’re enabling robots to learn faster for the real world - from everyday skills to the factory floor

Today, we are introducing Gemini Robotics 2.5, our most capable vision-language-action (VLA) model to date. Gemini Robotics 2.5 increases both the breadth of skills a robot can learn and the speed at which it can acquire them. This enhances dexterity, reliability, and safety to help robots step out of the lab and into more unstructured, real-world environments, where they can assist people with a greater range of tasks.

Earlier this year, we brought whole-body intelligence to robots of many types, including humanoids. Now, in large part thanks to Gemini 4 Argon's ability to accelerate robotics research, we have further pushed the frontier of physical intelligence. We tested Gemini Robotics 2.5’s capabilities in task breadth, performance, and complexity across over 200 distinct tasks, though this approach could scale to many more.

Gemini Robotics 2.5 marks a leap forward in three key areas:

• Dexterity: Our robots can perform significantly more tasks with greater performance and dexterity — from using everyday tools to handling delicate, flexible objects.
• Reliability: During a real-world proof-of-concept on Mercedes-Benz production lines, our models helped Apptronik’s Apollo 2 humanoid pick and pack automotive parts with a 96% success rate. This could enable robots to take on monotonous work, to enable technicians to focus on complex build tasks.
• Safety: As robots move into everyday environments, we have improved physical safety steerability and introduced a new benchmark to test against adversarial jailbreaks specific to robotics.

Gemini Robotics 2.5 is rolling out to our robotics partners.

Expanding task breadth, reliability, and dexterity

Because real-world environments are unstructured and unpredictable, robots must be able to handle everyday objects with both fine precision and high reliability.