Intro
Google DeepMind is the artificial intelligence research unit of Google, which is owned by Alphabet. According to Google DeepMind, DeepMind started in 2010 and the Brain team started at Google in 2011; the two were combined into a single unit called Google DeepMind, announced on 20 April 2023. Its UK company, DeepMind Technologies Limited, was incorporated on 23 September 2010 and has its registered office in London, according to Companies House. Its careers page lists offices in London, the Bay Area, Bangalore, Cambridge (US), Montreal, New York City, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto and Zurich.
Google DeepMind's robotics work includes Gemini Robotics, a family of models that it describes as including vision-language-action models, which turn vision and language input into motor control, an embodied reasoning model for real-world understanding and multi-step planning, and an on-device version designed to run locally on robots. It names Agile Robots, Apptronik and Boston Dynamics as research partners for this work.
Google DeepMind has also built the Barkour robots, which its GitHub repository describes as a series of agile quadruped robots developed by Google DeepMind to support research projects. The repository publishes design assets and low-level software, with the software under the Apache 2.0 licence and other materials under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
Robots
- Barkour: Series of agile quadruped robots developed by Google DeepMind for research, with design files and low-level software published on GitHub.
