Google announced on October 27 that it is making Gemini Robotics ER 2, an AI model that supports robots' situational judgment and task planning, available as a public preview on Google Cloud. The model was first announced on July 30 and made available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, but had remained a limited preview on the enterprise-focused Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

ER 2 is a higher-level model that understands its surroundings from images, video and other inputs and decides how to proceed with a task. Concrete control, such as driving a robot's motors, is handled by the connected control system or by a separate AI model, so the announcement does not mean a cloud model can now run robots autonomously on its own.

With the expansion, enterprises can test an AI that handles a robot's task decisions while combining it with Google Cloud authentication and permission management. Google also describes ER 2 classifying task progress, locating the video frame where a critical event happened, and self-correcting after a failed step instead of restarting the whole task.