Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon for robotics
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Argon scores 87% on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark using pure reasoning, beating every other frontier model. It drives a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped and a simple robot arm, building a MuJoCo digital twin to rehearse tasks before acting.
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