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It is executing an Android-of-robots strategy through partnerships with Boston Dynamics (next-gen Atlas), Agile Robots, and Apptronik, and hired Boston Dynamics' former CTO. Nothing is on sale yet, no licensing terms are published, and the whole-body model is early-access only, so a demonstration is not a deployment.","sub_category":"Agents & reasoning","signals_total":565,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/google-deepmind","title":"Google DeepMind · robotics, London, England, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Google DeepMind develops Gemini Robotics, a vision-language-action foundation model for robots, and applies it across humanoid and other robotic platforms. 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