Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2.5 with ASIMOV-Jailbreak safety benchmark

The new robotics model posted a 96% pick-and-pack success rate in a Mercedes-Benz trial and comes with an open-source test for tricking robots into unsafe actions Google DeepMind has rolled out Gemini Robotics 2.5, the newest version of its AI platform for physical machines. The company says its robots are now getting close to matching humans at real-world tasks. The release landed on November 10, 2026. It comes with a proof-of-concept inside Mercedes-Benz factories and an open-source benchmark called ASIMOV-Jailbreak. The benchmark measures whether robots can be talked into doing something dangerous. How Gemini Robotics 2.5 works The planner is Gemini Embodied Reasoning, a vision-language model. It takes a spoken or written instruction, watches a live video feed, and works out a strategy for completing the task. The mover is the vision-language-action model, or VLA. This component turns the plan into concrete physical motions. DeepMind describes Gemini Robotics 2.5 as its most advanced VLA system so far. The upgrades target four areas: breadth of tasks, learning speed, dexterity, and reliability. On dexterity, DeepMind showed robots tying bows and using tools. The Mercedes-Benz te...