Google reports expert-level results for a medical AI conducting real-time video consultations

On 11 August 2026 Google Research described AMIE (Video), a configuration of its Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer built on Gemini and Project Astra that conducts synchronous clinical video consultations — perceiving non-verbal visual and auditory cues and guiding patients through physical-examination manoeuvres. The team reports a first-of-its-kind randomised controlled study using simulated consultations with patient actors. Google frames the work as addressing a standing limit of its earlier text-only systems, which discard the visual and auditory dimensions of a real consultation; separate real-world clinical studies are described as ongoing.

What it means Results still come from simulated consultations with actors, not patients — but the modality has moved from typed history to live video, which is where most real triage actually happens.