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      "url": "https://cyborgslife.com/capsules/deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-2026/",
      "title": "Gemini Robotics 2 takes Google's VLA to whole-body control",
      "summary": "One model now walks, crouches and manipulates in a single task, drives Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoids, and adds collaboration between different robot types.",
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      "title": "The EU AI Act's transparency duties become applicable",
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      "title": "HuidaGene discloses a CRISPR trial death twelve months late",
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