96%. This is the success rate of a humanoid robot equipped with Gemini Robotics 2.5 when picking and packaging parts on the Mercedes-Benz production line.
What Google released this time is its most powerful vision-language-action model, which is already open to robot partners. The official demonstration includes the action of tying a bow, which tests the dexterity of the fingers, but what is more important is the Mercedes-Benz proof of concept: a real workshop, real parts, not a laboratory desktop.
Several sets of numbers. The model has completed more than 200 tests of different tasks. Compared with the previous generation baseline, the success rate has increased by 30% to 100%, and the completion speed has been 20% to 30% faster. It is natively adapted to a variety of robot bodies and does not require separate retraining for each type of hardware.
Security does two things. First, with the addition of real-time physical hazard avoidance, the robot has a higher completion rate when handling tasks with safety risks. Second, a jailbreak robustness benchmark called ASIMOV-Jailbreak is open sourced and Google’s self-tested resistance rate is 99.5%. Conducting a jailbreak test on a robot sounds a bit sci-fi, but if the robot is tricked into doing dangerous actions with just one sentence, the consequences are completely different from those of a chatbot saying the wrong thing.
In terms of research and development, Google said that the progress of 2.5 is largely accelerated by Gemini 4 Argon.
What do you think of 96%? It looks beautiful in the demonstration video, but it’s not enough to put it on the production line. A work station in an automobile factory must repeat thousands of actions a day, and a 4% failure rate means that people need to check the details hundreds of times a day. From the proof of concept to the actual scheduling of work, the only difference is to reduce the 4% to the decimal point.
However, a year ago, similar models could not even "achieve a statistically measurable success rate in a real factory."