Robotics strategy is a major long term priority for every major tech CEO in the world right now
Imo maybe only Google will be able to pull off the robot foundation model component because they’ve spent a decade+ working on it with significant resources
None have the DNA for commercializing complex hardware. The innovation and growth on this end will come from new companies like
@Apptronik like you see in this video
New Gemini Robotics 1.5 models will enable robots to better reason, plan ahead, use digital tools like Search, and transfer learning from one kind of robot to another. Our next big step towards general-purpose robots that are truly helpful — you can see how the robot reasons as it sorts laundry in the video below.