Gemini Robotics 1.5 Brings AI Agents Into the Physical World
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world, sparking discussion about its potential applications and limitations, with some commenters questioning its practicality and others speculating about its future capabilities.
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Is it a product you can buy or a thing you can use? Of course not, this is Google.
Sometimes the pipeline between SOTA research is longer than you want, but it doesn't mean that publishing research or doing research should be discouraged.
I rather appreciate that google is willing to show their work, and throw money at things that might make the world a better place without a clear path to profitability.
For all their faults, their willingness to support pure research isn't one of them.
Sure, anything that the shareholders or executives can get their grubby, misinformed endless growth paws into withers and dies, but that's the modern life we all vote for.