Gemini Robotics 2.5
Gemini Robotics 2.5: Google’s most capable robot model
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Gemini Robotics 2.5 is Google DeepMind’s most capable vision-language-action model, turning what a robot sees and is told into hand and arm movements. Per DeepMind, it has a 30% to 100% higher success rate than the previous baseline, finishes tasks 20% to 30% faster, and reached 96% success in a Mercedes-Benz parts-kitting pilot with Apptronik’s Apollo 2 humanoid. Works across robot types. Rolling out to robotics partners.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 128 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
- YouTube
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Could you build this?
No This is a vision-language-action foundation model for robots, and a comparable model requires large-scale training and proprietary robot data that vibe coding cannot produce.
What it would actually take: Building a comparable model means training a large vision-language backbone and then a robot action head on large volumes of teleoperated demonstration data, which requires TPU-scale compute and proprietary datasets. Evaluation needs physical robot hardware for real-world success-rate measurement. The work needs an ML research team with robotics experience, not an app stack.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 343 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 344 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 375 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Gemini 4 Carbon · ph · 2026-10-29 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- open-gemini-robot-harness · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Google Gemma 4 · ph · 2026-04-03 · 439 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live · ph · 2026-03-27 · 320 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Gemini 3.6 Flash Family · ph · 2026-07-22 · 182 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Gemini 3.5 Live Translate · ph · 2026-06-10 · 253 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · ph · 2026-05-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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