Chief Executive Officer, Boston Dynamics
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Overseeing Gemini integration into Spot and Atlas platforms
For decades, industrial robots have been powerful but rigid—they follow pre-programmed instructions and break when the world deviates from what engineers anticipated. Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, released on April 14, 2026, represents the sharpest version yet of a new approach: giving robots the same kind of flexible reasoning that powers chatbots like Gemini, but aimed at understanding and acting in physical space. The model can now read pressure gauges, thermometers, and digital readouts with 98% accuracy when paired with its agentic vision system—a capability that emerged directly from collaboration with Boston Dynamics, whose Spot robot patrols industrial facilities.
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