Teaching a humanoid robot to play cornhole with Gemini 4 Argon

Name: Teaching a humanoid robot to play cornhole with Gemini 4 Argon
Uploaded: 2026-10-13
Duration: 103 s
Channel: Google DeepMind
Description: Google’s official demonstration of Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid throwing cornhole beanbags after Gemini 4 Argon builds a simulation from human video. The reported seven consecutive successful throws are Google’s internal result.

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Google’s official demonstration of Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid throwing cornhole beanbags after Gemini 4 Argon builds a simulation from human video. The reported seven consecutive successful throws are Google’s internal result. Google / Apptronik

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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon demonstration points to a new use for human footage: specifying a physical experiment that a robot can rehearse.

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