News for the handful of other people frequenting /lmg/ who are doing robotics stuff:

Google is releasing an on-device version of their gemini robotics VLA that they've had behind closed doors for a while.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/

It's not really clear exactly how open this whole thing is. To get model access you have to submit a form to request to be part of their "trusted tester program". Not sure if it's going to be a heavily gatekept and vetted thing, or if it'll be like the old llama access requests where it was just a formality and everyone got blanket rubber stamp approved.