April 2026: Boston Dynamics Puts Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on Spot for Gauge Reading and Autonomous Inspections
Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 into Spot, turning the quadruped from a scripted inspection robot into one that can reason through industrial tasks such as reading gauges, checking instruments, and carrying out multi-step actions from natural language prompts. The important shift is not just easier control: Gemini is handling embodied decision-making…