“The VLA is controlling the whole humanoid body from like fingertips to the feet... you need to reason entirely about how the body is, and also all the sensory information about how the environment is”
"The Cognitive Revolution" · One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
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What was described
use a VLA model to control the entire humanoid body from fingertips to feet, integrating sensory information to decide actions
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“Tools for nurses... quality control and information can be very easily supplied by existing AI models with the right applications built on top of our current models.”
“If you have 10 tasks in sequence... the ER model has a certain X success rate and the VLA model has a Y success rate, now the sequencing task compounds the error”