Google partners with Agile Robots, growing its AI robotics footprint
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Google As it turns to robotics as an important bet for artificial intelligence, it adds another robotics partnership to its generation.
Agile Robots develops smart, sensor-based robotic arms and humanoid robots. The company announced that it is partnering with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics core models with Agile Robots hardware.
“The partnership was built on the belief that applying artificial intelligence to the physical world will be transformative,” Tuesday’s blog post states. “By combining Agile Robots’ hardware developed in Germany and other AI robotics solutions with Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics core models, the two teams will improve performance through robot deployment, data collection, model training, and iteration.”
The new partnership means Google will get real-world distribution data as it sees robotics as one of the biggest use cases of AI and competes with companies like Amazon And Tesla’s. This also shows that the company is making various robotics partnerships as it turns to manufacturing as its main use case.
The blog post notes that Munich-based Agile Robots already has more than 20,000 deployed robotic systems worldwide and will integrate Google’s technology into existing industrial robots at scale. The partnership will focus primarily on “high-value industrial” use cases such as manufacturing tasks.
““This research partnership is an important step in bringing the impact of AI to the real world,” Google DeepMind Senior Director and Head of Robotics Carolina Parada said in a blog post on Tuesday, adding that Agile Robots will help Google develop “more advanced AI models for the next generation of robots.”
Google launched two new AI models in mid-2025: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER (extended reasoning) that incorporate generative AI into physical action commands to control robots. Google said: blog post at the time it would partner with Apptronik, a Texas-based robotics developer, to “build the next generation of humanoid robots with Gemini 2.0.”
Google’s DeepMind in January in question It will work with Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics, formerly a division of Google, to develop new artificial intelligence models for the Atlas robot.
Last month, Google DeepMind announced that Intrinsic, a robotics software company, would be moving from the “Other Bets” category to the parent company in hopes of becoming the “Android of Robotics.” The company said it will focus on the manufacturing sector and work with Google’s Gemini and infrastructure teams, potentially helping Google build out its own data centers.
The first sign that the company was getting serious about robotics was the hiring of key talent last year. Google’s DeepMind unit in November Hired former CTO of Boston Dynamics Aaron Saunders.
However, Google’s increasing interest in robotics has brought skepticism within the company.
Boston Dynamics, for example, has long-standing contracts with the Department of Defense, and some DeepMind employees reportedly raised concerns at a meeting earlier this year. Business Content.
This isn’t just a trend seen on Google. Robotics is emerging as an important use case for artificial intelligence in the technology industry.
Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup for construction machinery founded in February by Waymo and Segment veterans, raised A new fundraising round valued the two-year-old start-up at $1.75 billion, raising $270 million.
The round was led by Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, Valor Atreides AI Fund; Nvidia’s venture arm and previous backer 8VC.
