Making a breakthrough believable in real time.
solution
Meaningful Storytelling
deliverables
Film series
Decode
The embodied AI market is crowded with humanoid demos that look spectacular, but are largely pre-programmed. Audiences have learned to treat anything impressive on screen with suspicion. The launch of Gemini Robotics 2 needed to demonstrate a leap in dexterity and autonomy that people could see and trust.
Humanize
We built scenes around practical, everyday frustrations anyone would recognise, and let the reality of the engineering feat speak for itself. The engineers also feature, to add context to the tasks, and to root the whole film in warm robot/ human interactions.
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Hero film
Explaining the advance in embodied reasoning through relatable moments shared by robots and the engineers who train them.
Six demo films
Each shot in real time, with no cuts in the chronology, showing autonomous dexterity exactly as it happens.
Multi-channel rollout
Cut for YouTube, Instagram, X and LinkedIn, and hosted on the Google DeepMind website and blog.
Earned media
Coverage across WIRED and Bloomberg, with a technical feature in IEEE Spectrum.
Results
Over 2 million views in six weeks.