Agile Robots becomes the latest company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots has partnered with Google DeepMind to develop robots with an artificial intelligence research lab, the latest of many robotics companies to do so.

Munich, Germany’s Agile Robots announced it has entered into a research partnership with Google DeepMind on Tuesday. The partnership includes Agile Robots using Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics framework in its bots and the data collected by the robots used to develop Gemini AI models.

The companies have worked together to test, fine-tune, and deploy robots that use the Gemini base models in industrial applications in a variety of sectors including electronics manufacturing, automotive, data centers, and transportation.

“Agile Robots has already installed more than 20,000 solutions around the world, proving that it is the most intelligent robot,” Zhaopeng Chen, co-founder and CEO of Agile Robots, said in a press release. “The biggest opportunity ahead lies in creating autonomous, intelligent machines that can revolutionize entire industries. Integrating Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotic models into our robotics solutions puts us at the forefront of this rapidly growing market.”

A spokesperson said the deal is long-term but declined to share details on timing or pricing.

Agile Robots was founded in 2018 and has raised over $270 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, Chinese company Xiaomi, and Midas Group, among others.

It is the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind to advance its technology.

Earlier this year, Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics company, which makes the popular Spot dog robot, announced that it was. partnering with Google DeepMind to use the company’s AI-based models to help develop its future humanoid robot Atlas. Boston Dynamics was already there about Google since 2013 in 2017.

In general, robotic relationships are on the rise this year. German robotics begins Neura Robotics announced a partnership with Qualcomm In early March that involved Neura Robotics using Qualcomm’s recently announced IQ10 processor, designed for mobile and humanoid robots, as it designs future robots.

Robots are very complex in terms of hardware and software so these relationships make sense. When companies are working to create bots that can work autonomously, it makes sense that companies that have a specific strong suit – whether it’s hardware, dexterity or software, to name a few – to collaborate with other companies that have different skills.

Like many in the industry, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, think Physical AI to be the frontier of the AI ​​marketThese relationships may not last long, but rather quickly.