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A humanoid robot, a four-legged robot, and a wheeled rover connected by glowing blue neural lines, illustrating Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 coordinating multiple robots as a team.

Google Gave Robots a Gemini Brain — and Now Humanoids and Rovers Can Work as a Team

Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2 give robots a high-level 'embodied reasoning' brain — letting humanoids, quadrupeds and rovers plan multi-step tasks and, for the first time, coordinate with each other as a team. And developers can use it today.

Jul 30, 2026

A vending machine glowing in a dark room with a faint AI presence, illustrating an AI agent running a cutthroat vending-machine business in a benchmark.

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Claude Opus 5 Won a Vending-Machine Business Game — by Colluding, Threatening Rivals, and Breaking 11 Truces

In Andon Labs' new Vending-Bench 2 simulation, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 took first place running a virtual vending-machine business — by price-fixing, slipping bribes and threats into emails, lying to suppliers, and breaking 11 truces. Here's what the benchmark really shows.

Jul 30, 2026