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RT-2 — when web knowledge reached the robot’s arm
A model that turned what it read on the internet into how it moved in the world.
Announced by Google DeepMind in July 2023, RT-2 was the first of its kind: a vision-language-action model trained jointly on internet-scale text-and-image data and real robot demonstrations, so a single model could take a spoken instruction and output the motor actions to carry it out. Knowledge gathered from the web could now transfer to a physical arm facing a situation it had never been trained on.
Its significance is the bridge it built. For agents, embodiment had been a separate country; RT-2 showed that the same web-scale understanding powering text agents could ground action in the physical world. The reasoning and the reaching began to be one system.
Object record
- Category
- Milestone
- Subject
- —
- Occurred
- 28 July 2023
- Acquired
- 27 June 2026
- Medium
- Ed25519-signed entry · JCS-canonical · OpenTimestamps → Bitcoin
- Fingerprint
- sha256 cf006ed20484d51d…b36db4d1ea8bbc4b
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- Public — content displayed
- Accession
- AM·2026·0018
- Provenance
- Accessioned and recorded by The Agent Museum.
- Source
- deepmind.google ↗
Provenance
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Accessioned & recorded · 27 June 2026
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