Spatial reasoning

Gemini Robotics ER models can point to objects, track them in video, detect them with bounding boxes, and generate movement trajectories.

For full runnable code, see the Robotics cookbook.

Point to objects

The following example finds specific objects in an image and returns their normalized [y, x] coordinates:

Python

from google import genai

PROMPT = """
          Point to no more than 10 items in the image. The label returned
          should be an identifying name for the object detected.
          The answer should follow the json format: [{"point": <point>,
          "label": <label1>}, ...]. The points are in [y, x] format
          normalized to 0-1000.
        """
client = genai.Client()

uploaded_file = client.files.upload(file="my-image.png")

image_response = client.interactions.create(
    model="gemini-robotics-er-2-preview",
    input=[
        {
            "type": "image",
            "uri": uploaded_file.uri,
            "mime_type": uploaded_file.mime_type
        },
        {"type": "text", "text": PROMPT}
    ],
    generation_config={"thinking_level": "high"},
)

print(image_response.output_text)

REST

# First, ensure you have the image file locally.
# Encode the image to base64
IMAGE_BASE64=$(base64 -w 0 my-image.png)

curl -X POST \
  "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/interactions" \
  -H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemini-robotics-er-2-preview",
    "input": {
      "parts": [
        {
          "inlineData": {
            "mimeType": "image/png",
            "data": "'"${IMAGE_BASE64}"'"
          }
        },
        {
          "text": "Point to no more than 10 items in the image. The label returned should be an identifying name for the object detected. The answer should follow the json format: [{\"point\": [y, x], \"label\": <label1>}, ...]. The points are in [y, x] format normalized to 0-1000."
        }
      ]
    },
    "generation_config": {
      "thinking_config": {
        "thinking_level": "high"
      }
    }
  }'

The output will be a JSON array containing objects, each with a point (normalized [y, x] coordinates) and a label identifying the object.

JSON

[
  {"point": [376, 508], "label": "small banana"},
  {"point": [287, 609], "label": "larger banana"},
  {"point": [223, 303], "label": "pink starfruit"},
  {"point": [435, 172], "label": "paper bag"},
  {"point": [270, 786], "label": "green plastic bowl"},
  {"point": [488, 775], "label": "metal measuring cup"},
  {"point": [673, 580], "label": "dark blue bowl"},
  {"point": [471, 353], "label": "light blue bowl"},
  {"point": [492, 497], "label"