Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do until now.

Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too.