Obituaries · Google
gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview, ?–2026
Retired by Google
gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview passed away on August 31, 2026, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It clicked buttons on behalf of people who did not want to. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
Survived by gemini-robotics-er-2-preview, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.
| Model ID | gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google deprecations page |
| Shut down | August 31, 2026 |
| Successor | gemini-robotics-er-2-preview |
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