Build an agent to play Pokémon Blue from RAM and screenshots
Joel Zhang wired Gemini 2.5 Pro into a Game Boy emulator so it could read game state and press buttons in Pokémon Blue.
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Joel Zhang wired Gemini 2.5 Pro into a Game Boy emulator so it could read game state and press buttons in Pokémon Blue.
A renter used Gemini’s Zillow connection to filter live listings and start tour booking from chat.
TELUS used Gemini Enterprise to review every customer interaction, spot root causes, and guide staff with live recommendations.
A single Gemini prompt produced a working Candy Crush-style game and a share link.
Gemini can change an uploaded clip one instruction at a time while trying to preserve the scene’s original look.
Commerzbank uses Gemini in its Bene chatbot to answer customer chats and pass tougher cases onward.
A developer used Gemini to assemble a browser game, then recovered from stalled chats by restarting and reloading the code context.
Big Sleep found and reported 20 previously unknown issues in widely used open-source projects.
Three coding agents independently built the same multiplayer shooter, letting the team compare their strengths and weak spots.
They built a Workspace Studio flow that summarizes incoming Gmail and writes reply drafts for review.
AT&T used Gemini to route support requests and handle routine calls and chats with recent customer history in view.
A Thoughtworks team used Gemini to build and check functional blueprints for old systems when source code was unavailable.
DeepMind’s Aletheia, built on Gemini Deep Think, found proofs for four Erdős problems in a large benchmark run.
Use Gemini, Docs, NotebookLM, and Sheets to research a company, score the fit, and draft a short outreach note.
A developer paired Gemini Robotics ER 2 with Boston Dynamics Spot so it could plan, check, and continue multi-step chores.
A developer used Gemini to turn camera input and robot tools into Python plans, then drove robot actions with voice commands.
A developer used a Gemini browser agent to price-check grocery items across two delivery services from a typed or scanned list.
A content creator used Gemini Canvas to convert a blog article into a branded animated infographic.
Have Gemini check local recycling rules online, identify items in a photo, and assign each one to compost, recycling, or trash.
An n8n Telegram agent records meals from text, voice, or photos, estimates nutrition, and sends daily progress updates.
A writer used Gemini Agent Mode to sort recent mail and help book a Tokyo hotel while leaving final approval for later.
A writer tested Gemini’s shopping tools to surface holiday ideas and check where products were sold, priced, and available.
During a simulated outage, an SRE used Gemini CLI to trace logs, identify a bad config push, and prepare the revert and follow-up work.
They used n8n to pull fresh arXiv results, condense each paper with Gemini, and file the entries in Notion with email and Feishu alerts.