Google’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 shows robots can now think before acting

New Delhi: Robots folding laundry, sorting trash or even packing your suitcase sound like a scene out of sci-fi. But Google’s DeepMind says that future may be closer than expected. On September 26, 2025, the company unveiled Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 , two new AI models designed to help robots think, plan and act more like humans .

The announcement marks an important shift. Robots are no longer just machines waiting for single, direct instructions. With this update, they can reason through multi-step problems, look up information online if needed, and then carry out tasks in a more general way.

New Gemini Robotics 1.5 models will enable robots to better reason, plan ahead, use digital tools like Search, and transfer learning from one kind of robot to another. Ou