🪦 Dead
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
Model deprecation · Model Upgrade · shut down August 31, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 4m 19d
- Cause of death
- Model Upgrade
- Killed by
- Type
- Model
Released April 14, 2026, deleted August 31: a 139-day lifespan for an embodied-reasoning model that never left preview. It had killed its own predecessor, ER 1.5, on April 30, and was in turn replaced by gemini-robotics-er-2-preview, which shipped July 30 — 32 days before 1.6 was gone. Three robotics previews retired inside five months, none of which ever reached GA.