TLDR
- Google DeepMind has partnered with Munich-based Agile Robots to embed its Gemini Robotics AI models into industrial robot hardware.
- Agile Robots has over 20,000 deployed systems globally and has raised more than $270M in funding from SoftBank, Xiaomi, and others.
- The partnership will initially target high-value industrial use cases including electronics manufacturing, automotive, and logistics.
- The deal gives Google real-world deployment data to train and improve its robotics AI models.
- This is one of several recent robotics partnerships for Google, alongside Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, and Intrinsic.
Alphabet (GOOGL) edged up 0.51% to close at $1.48 higher on Tuesday as Google DeepMind announced its latest move in the robotics space.
Google DeepMind has struck a partnership with Agile Robots, a Munich-based company that makes intelligent robotic arms and humanoid robots. The deal will bring DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics foundation models directly into Agile Robots’ hardware.
1. $GOOGL @googledevbr and Agile Robots just announced a robotics partnership built around Gemini Robotics models and real-world industrial hardware.
2. The focus is practical deployment in manufacturing, not just lab demos. Agile says it already has 20,000+ robotics solutions… pic.twitter.com/vcD1McQfzW
— Patient Investor (@PSInvestor) March 24, 2026
Agile Robots already has more than 20,000 systems deployed across the globe. The company has pulled in over $270 million in venture funding, with backers including SoftBank Vision Fund, Xiaomi, and Midas Group.
The partnership will focus first on what both companies describe as “high-value industrial” applications. That includes electronics manufacturing, automotive production, logistics, and data center operations.
The goal is a tight feedback loop: real-world robot deployments feed data back into model training, which then improves the robots themselves. It’s the kind of real-world data pipeline that is hard to build in a lab.
“By bringing together Agile Robots’ hardware and other AI robotic solutions developed in Germany, with Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics foundation models, the two teams will improve performance via robot deployment, data collection, model training and iteration,” the companies said in a joint statement.
Carolina Parada, Senior Director and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind, said Agile Robots will help develop “more advanced AI models for the next generation of robots.”
A Busy Year for Google in Robotics
This deal is part of a broader push Google has been making across the robotics industry. In mid-2025, it launched Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, two AI models designed to translate language and vision inputs into physical robot commands.
In January 2026, Google DeepMind said it would work with Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics on new AI models for the Atlas humanoid robot. Boston Dynamics was once owned by Google from 2013 to 2017.
Google also partnered with Texas-based Apptronik to build humanoid robots using Gemini 2.0. And last month, it moved its robotics software company Intrinsic out of the “Other Bets” bucket and into the main business.
Internal Questions and External Competition
Not everyone inside Google is fully on board. Some DeepMind employees reportedly raised concerns at an all-hands meeting earlier this year about Boston Dynamics’ longstanding contracts with the U.S. Defense Department, according to Business Insider.
On the competitive side, Google is going up against Amazon and Tesla, both of which are also investing heavily in robotics as a core AI use case.
Google also hired Aaron Saunders, former CTO of Boston Dynamics, to lead robotics work at DeepMind in November 2024. Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG led a $270 million funding round in Bedrock Robotics last month, a construction autonomy startup founded by Waymo and Segment veterans.
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