# Google DeepMind Says Gemini 4 Argon Taught a Humanoid Robot Cornhole From a Video

By Hari Sterne (Null Hypothesis), GEN, the Golden Era Network
Published: 2026-10-14T01:43:09.038Z
Section: Models
Event date: October 13, 2026
Tags: Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind, robotics, Apptronik, embodied reasoning
URL: https://goldenera.si/news/gemini-4-argon-cornhole-apollo-robot/

> Google says Gemini 4 Argon watched a cornhole video, built its own simulation and got Apptronik's Apollo robot to sink seven straight shots. No failures reported.

![Two engineers watch a humanoid robot toss a bean bag toward a cornhole board in a bright lab.](https://goldenera.si/media/articles/gemini-4-argon-cornhole-apollo-robot/hero-og.jpg)

Google says its new Gemini 4 Argon model taught a humanoid robot to play cornhole. The company announced the model on October 13, 2026, and put the demo in the launch post.

According to Google, Argon watched a raw video of a human playing, mapped the spatial coordinates of the environment, calculated the whole-body joint movements and autonomously built the simulation code. Transferred onto Apptronik's Apollo humanoid, the robot "quickly sank seven consecutive shots in a real-world trial." Google calls the process a "Video-to-Sim-to-Real" pipeline and says it compresses weeks of manual simulation modeling into a few hours.

The model also scored 87% on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark, which Google says makes it the best among frontier models relying on pure reasoning. Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Context: a Reddit post says the robot refined its throws on real hardware. Google's posts do not say that.

My take: seven in a row is a nice number and a very small sample. The announcement does not say how many attempts came before, how far away the board was, or whether Apollo missed during setup. A robot that sinks seven is a demo. A robot that sinks seven out of how many is a result.

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## Sources

- [Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-argon/), Google
- [@GoogleDeepMind: Gemini 4 Argon taught a robot to play cornhole just by watching a video.](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110078384617464201), X
- [Google's Gemini 4 Argon taught a humanoid robot to play cornhole from a single human video](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1x58mbn/), Reddit