Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

Embodied-reasoning vision-language model for robotics (spatial understanding, pointing, trajectory planning) - a specialist, not a general chat model. Was preview-only for its whole life. Inputs text/image/video/audio, output text; 131,072 input / 65,536 output tokens (spec table on the model page, which still exists and lists 'Preview: gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview'). Last published rates: $1.00/M in and $5.00/M out standard, $0.50/$2.50 batch, no separate cached-input rate; the pricing page no longer carries a Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 section on the 2026-10-20 read, so the price fields are null rather than carried forward. Release date April 14, 2026 read first-party 2026-08-05 from the Release date column of Google's deprecations table (supersedes an earlier note reading the model page's 'spec table latest update December 2025' as not-a-release-date and leaving released null - the table states the real one as data). CONFIRMED RETIRED 2026-10-20 on the only signal this catalog accepts for a Google shutdown: the gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview row on the deprecations page now carries a literal class="row-gray" on its <tr>, and that page's own legend reads "Already-shutdown models are indicated with gray backgrounds". check-lifecycle-drift.mjs reads that marker and reported Google stating "shut-down" against our "preview". The row was not gray on the 2026-10-19 read (the same script reported drift 0 that day), so the marker appeared between the two reads, 50 days after the published shutdown date of August 31, 2026 (read first-party from the same table on 2026-07-31). Until 2026-10-20 the row was held at preview on purpose: Google states shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired", and a passed date is never sufficient on its own. Its recommended replacement there is gemini-robotics-er-2-preview, added to the catalog 2026-08-02 and now pointed at from this row; Google also offers gemini-robotics-er-2-streaming-preview as an upgrade path for Live API users.

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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