Agile Robots SE has announced a partnership with Google DeepMind to bring advanced AI foundation models to its humanoid robot.
The goal is to make industrial robots smarter and more adaptable, enabling them to tackle real-world manufacturing tasks with greater intelligence.
The Munich-based company will integrate DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics models into its Agile ONE humanoid platform. This builds on Agile Robots’ existing portfolio, which includes dexterous robotic hands and force‑sensitive arms.
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Agile Robots was founded in 2018 by Zhaopeng Chen, who serves as CEO. Google DeepMind is Alphabet’s AI research lab, led in robotics by Carolina Parada, senior director and head of robotics.
Today’s industrial robots often struggle with tasks that require flexibility and quick adaptation. By combining DeepMind’s AI with Agile Robots’ hardware, the partnership aims to create autonomous systems that can learn from real-world experience and work safely alongside people.
The companies will follow an iterative cycle: deploy robots, collect operational data, train the AI models, and then improve the robots’ performance. This creates what they call an “AI flywheel”—more deployment leads to better models, which in turn enable broader use.
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Initial focus will be on high‑value industrial and manufacturing tasks where reliability and scale are critical. Agile Robots has already installed more than 20,000 robotics solutions worldwide, providing a strong foundation for testing and scaling the new AI‑powered capabilities.
The collaboration is structured in phases, and the teams acknowledge that real‑world testing takes time. As Zhaopeng Chen explained to The Robot Report, they will share updates on key advancements as the work progresses, meaning full commercial impact is still ahead.
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This partnership is part of Google DeepMind’s broader push to embed advanced AI into next‑generation robots, including similar work with Boston Dynamics and Apptronik. By joining forces, Agile Robots and DeepMind aim to accelerate the shift toward fully autonomous production systems that could transform entire industries.
