{"id":1203,"date":"2026-05-12T18:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:33:28","slug":"spot-the-robot-can-reason-but-it-cant-hold-a-can-of-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Spot the Robot Can Reason, but it can\u2019t hold a can of soda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/reefwing_Boston_Dynamics_Spot_quadruped_robot_holding_an_alum_ae61ce1a-f93a-4983-8985-7a5dd28bb5a1_0-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced last month that Spot is now running Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a high-level embodied reasoning model. The headline is that Spot has been taught to reason. The commercial pitch is industrial inspection: wandering around a facility, reading gauges, spotting spills, deciding what to do when something looks wrong. So far, so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buried in the demo video is a small failure that says more about the architecture than the press release does. Asked to recycle cans in the living room, Spot picks one up sideways. If there is any liquid left in the can, it ends up on the carpet.\u00a0The problem is using a language model to solve something handled by other more primitive layers in the organic world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/gitconnected\/spot-the-robot-can-reason-but-it-cant-hold-a-can-of-soda-e531222b0e50?sk=9933caa99efad265d7c28d9d7f8a5341\">Read the complete article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced last month that Spot is now running Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a high-level embodied reasoning model. The headline is that Spot has been taught to reason. The commercial pitch is industrial inspection: wandering around a facility, reading gauges, spotting spills, deciding what to do when something looks wrong. 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