Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 — Boston Dynamics Integrates for Autonomous Spot Robot
The gap between AI that thinks and AI that moves is closing fast. On April 14, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 — a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model — and Boston Dynamics announced the same day that it’s already running it on Spot robots for fully autonomous industrial inspections. That’s not a research demo. That’s deployment. What Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Adds Gemini Robotics-ER (ER = Embodied Reasoning) is Google DeepMind’s model designed specifically for robots and physical AI systems that need to understand and navigate real-world environments. Version 1.6 delivers two headline capabilities: ...