Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview

Name: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
Author: Google DeepMind

Released

2026-04-14

Last refreshed

2026-06-15

Status

Researched 89d ago

ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
Workloads that can use a 128k context window
Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Specifications

Family: Gemini 3
Released: 2026-04-14
Context: 128k
Architecture: Decoder Only
Specialization: robotics
Openness: Proprietary
License: ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights: Not released
Code: Unknown
Training: Pretrained

Created by

Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom

Founded 2014

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$5.00

Input / 1M

$1.00

Cheapest of 1 route · Google AI Studio

Providers(1)

Google AI Studio

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Links

Website

About

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is Google DeepMind's enhanced embodied reasoning model for physical AI and robotics tasks. Pointing and counting accuracy improved from 61% (ER 1.5) to 80%; multi-view success detection reaches 84% across simultaneous camera feeds. New instrument-reading capability enables robots to interpret complex gauges and sight glasses. Context window is 131,072 input / 65,536 output tokens. Available via Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Replaces gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview, which was deprecated April 30, 2026.

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is a proprietary model in the Gemini 3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Google AI Studio, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview yet.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Batch in / out	Route
Google AI Studio	$1.00	$5.00	$0.500 / $2.50	Serverless

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