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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Now Reads Gauges and Thermometers with Google's AI

Summary by Ars Technica
Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of Google DeepMind’s newest robotic AI model that aims to enhance robotic capabilities for ‘embodied reasoning’ when interacting with physical environments. The new Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 model announced on April 14 performs as a “high-level reasoning mode…

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Boston Dynamics, a robotics affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, has unveiled new features for its quadruped robot Spot, combined with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Gemini.’ In a video posted on Boston Dynamics’ YouTube channel on the 14th (local time), a to-do list is written on a whiteboard inside a house. Spot independently identified and recognized this list using its onboard camera and Gemini.

[Digital Daily Reporter Yoon Seo-yeon] Robots that help with household chores are becoming a reality. Robots that used to simply execute commands have entered a stage where they make decisions and move on their own. On the 14th (local time), Boston Dynamics released a video of Spot, a four-legged robot equipped with Google's artificial intelligence (AI) 'Gemini'. In the video, Spot uses its onboard camera and Gemini to independently check and …

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The Robot Report broke the news on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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