Gemini 4 Argon robot sinks seven cornhole shots, miss count undisclosed
DeepMind's Oct 13 video says Gemini 4 Argon watched cornhole footage, built a physics sim and drove Apptronik's Apollo 2 to seven straight shots, but no attempt count is given, so the author calls it a highlight not a rate.
Humanoid's seven straight cornhole shots came with no miss count. This is Real Or Rumor. The robot is real, and the lab footage shows it. The seven in a row rest on Google's own word. DeepMind posted it October 13. Gemini 4 Argon watched a person play cornhole on video, built a physics simulation, practiced there, then drove Apptronik's Apollo 2 on a real board. At 1:17 of the full video the narration reaches step four, and it sounds like tuning: "I watched each bag land and adjusted my release by a few centimeters until we sank seven shots straight in the hole." Those are the only words in the video about how the trial ran. I went looking for the miss count in the video description and Google's launch post. Neither has one. The post says "a real-world trial," gives no count of tries, and is silent on whether anyone helped. Google says the pipeline "compresses weeks of manual simulation modeling into a few hours." That claim covers building the simulator, with no figure for the throwing. The post also names no customer and no price for this robot pipeline. Until I see the uncut take, seven is a highlight, not a rate. At 0:33 of this clip a voice yells "Woohoo!" and the cut goes to the robot's raised arms.