Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
- 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
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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.
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 |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
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