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Google Releases Gemini Robotics 2.5: Behind the 96% Factory Success Rate, the Real Challenge of the Remaining 4%

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2.5, with Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid achieving a 96% success rate sorting auto parts on Mercedes-Benz's active production lines. The model makes major gains on dexterity tasks, but the remaining 4% failure rate and a partner-only rollout show how far it still is from a plug-and-play platform product.

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Evolving metal extraction processes

The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists from generations ago. Processes have become larger and control systems…

Metal Extraction Process Innovation Industrial Decarbonization
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