Overview

• Gemini Robotics On-Device operates entirely offline on a robot’s onboard hardware, achieving performance near DeepMind’s cloud-based model.
• Developers can fine-tune the model with natural language prompts after providing just 50 demonstrations for new tasks.
• The release includes a Gemini Robotics SDK that supports simulation evaluation; it enables deployment across diverse robotics platforms.
• DeepMind demonstrated cross-platform adaptability by running the model on ALOHA robots; it was later adapted to a bi-arm Franka FR3 and Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid.
• The on-device variant omits built-in semantic safety reasoning, prompting developers to replicate DeepMind’s safety stack with custom safety controllers.