Robot AI model

RT-2

RT-2 co-trains pretrained vision-language models on web tasks and robot trajectories, representing robot actions as text tokens. The project evaluates PaLM-E and PaLI-X variants, so no single parameter count is assigned to the family.

Records last verified Oct 13, 2026 · Send a correction

Also known as Robotics Transformer 2

Organization
Google DeepMind
Type
VLA
Released / introduced
Jul 28, 2023
Public weights
Not established
Licence / scope
Not established
Parameters
Not disclosed
Base model
PaLM-E or PaLI-X (variant-dependent)
Humanoid association
None reported
Inputs
vision, language
Outputs
robot action tokens, natural-language reasoning

Release dates can mark an announcement or paper introduction. Public checkpoints, code licences and weight terms are distinct; follow the publisher’s links for the stated scope.

Disclosed training data

  • RT-1 robot demonstration dataset
  • Web vision-language data used by PaLM-E and PaLI-X

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Evidence

Sources

  1. [s1] RT-2 project: method and model variants ↗

    Google DeepMind · official · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. [s2] RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control ↗

    Google DeepMind · paper · published Jul 28, 2023 · accessed Oct 13, 2026