Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer
Abbas Abdolmaleki, Saminda Abeyruwan, Joshua Ainslie, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Ashwin Balakrishna, Nathan Batchelor, Alex Bewley, Jeff Bingham, Michael Bloesch, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Philemon Brakel, Anthony Brohan, Thomas Buschmann, Arunkumar Byravan, Serkan Cabi, Ken Caluwaerts, Federico Casarini, Christine Chan, Oscar Chang, London Chappellet-Volpini, Jose Enrique Chen, Xi Chen, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Krzysztof Choromanski, Adrian Collister, David B. D'Ambrosio, Sudeep Dasari, Todor Davchev, Meet Kirankumar Dave, Coline Devin, Norman Di Palo, Tianli Ding, Carl Doersch, Adil Dostmohamed, Yilun Du, Debidatta Dwibedi, Sathish Thoppay Egambaram, Michael Elabd, Tom Erez, Xiaolin Fang, Claudio Fantacci, Cody Fong, Erik Frey, Chuyuan Fu, Ruiqi Gao, Marissa Giustina, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Laura Graesser, Oliver Groth, Agrim Gupta, Roland Hafner, Steven Hansen, Leonard Hasenclever, Sam Haves, Nicolas Heess, Brandon Hernaez, Alex Hofer, Jasmine Hsu, Lu Huang, Sandy H. Huang, Atil Iscen, Mithun George Jacob, Deepali Jain, Sally Jesmonth, Abhishek Jindal, Ryan Julian, Dmitry Kalashnikov, M. Emre Karagozler, Stefani Karp, Matija Kecman, J. Chase Kew, Donnie Kim, Frank Kim, Junkyung Kim, Thomas Kipf, Sean Kirmani, Ksenia Konyushkova, Li Yang Ku, Yuheng Kuang, Thomas Lampe, Antoine Laurens, Tuan Anh Le, Isabel Leal, Alex X. Lee, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Guy Lever, Jacky Liang, Li-Heng Lin, Fangchen Liu, Shangbang Long, Caden Lu, Sharath Maddineni, Anirudha Majumdar, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Andrew Marmon, Sergio Martinez, Assaf Hurwitz Michaely, Niko Milonopoulos, Joss Moore, Robert Moreno, Michael Neunert, Francesco Nori, Joy Ortiz, Kenneth Oslund, Carolina Parada, Emilio Parisotto, Amaris Paryag, Acorn Pooley, Thomas Power, Alessio Quaglino, Haroon Qureshi, Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju, Helen Ran, Dushyant Rao, Kanishka Rao, Isaac Reid, David Rendleman, Krista Reymann, Miguel Rivas, Francesco Romano, Yulia Rubanova, Peter Pastor Sampedro, Pannag R Sanketi, Dhruv Shah, Mohit Sharma, Kathryn Shea, Mohit Shridhar, Charles Shu, Vikas Sindhwani, Sumeet Singh, Radu Soricut, Rachel Sterneck, Ian Storz, Razvan Surdulescu, Jie Tan, Jonathan Tompson, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Jake Varley, Grace Vesom, Giulia Vezzani, Maria Bauza Villalonga, Oriol Vinyals, René Wagner, Ayzaan Wahid, Stefan Welker, Paul Wohlhart, Chengda Wu, Markus Wulfmeier, Fei Xia, Ted Xiao, Annie Xie, Jinyu Xie, Peng Xu, Sichun Xu, Ying Xu, Zhuo Xu, Jimmy Yan, Sherry Yang, Skye Yang, Yuxiang Yang, Hiu Hong Yu, Wenhao Yu, Wentao Yuan, Yuan Yuan, Jingwei Zhang, Tingnan Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Allan Zhou, Guangyao Zhou, Yuxiang Zhou
Published: 2025/10/2
Abstract
General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the Gemini Robotics model family: Gemini Robotics 1.5, a multi-embodiment Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, a state-of-the-art Embodied Reasoning (ER) model. We are bringing together three major innovations. First, Gemini Robotics 1.5 features a novel architecture and a Motion Transfer (MT) mechanism, which enables it to learn from heterogeneous, multi-embodiment robot data and makes the VLA more general. Second, Gemini Robotics 1.5 interleaves actions with a multi-level internal reasoning process in natural language. This enables the robot to "think before acting" and notably improves its ability to decompose and execute complex, multi-step tasks, and also makes the robot's behavior more interpretable to the user. Third, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 establishes a new state-of-the-art for embodied reasoning, i.e., for reasoning capabilities that are critical for robots, such as visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and progress estimation. Together, this family of models takes us a step towards an era of physical agents-enabling robots to perceive, think and then act so they can solve complex multi-step tasks.