Google Gemini can book an Uber or order food for you on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26

Google’s Gemini AI is getting 1 measurement person to being much for illustration an existent assistant. Starting pinch immoderate Pixel 10 phones and the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, Gemini will beryllium capable to hail an Uber aliases put together a DoorDash bid connected its own.

It’s called task automation, and it starts pinch a punctual to Gemini — thing for illustration “Get maine an Uber to the Palace of Fine Arts.” Gemini past launches the app successful a virtual model connected your instrumentality and goes done the process step-by-step. You tin watch it each happen, pinch options to extremity the automation aliases return power if necessary, aliases conscionable fto it tally successful the inheritance while Gemini does its thing. The adjunct will notify you if it needs your attraction to take betwixt 2 options, aliases if thing you asked it to look for is retired of stock. Once your thrust aliases market cart is each set, Gemini will alert you to return a look and taxable the last bid yourself.

According to Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat, this is 1 measurement connected the travel from reasoning of Android not arsenic an operating system, but arsenic an “intelligence system.” And app automations aren’t strictly constricted to Gemini. Samat says that this expertise for an AI adjunct to automate tasks is coming to Android’s adjacent awesome release, truthful we tin expect to perceive much astir it arsenic much is revealed astir Android 17.

So really precisely is Gemini putting together your burger order? The demos I saw were based connected Gemini 3 opening the app and utilizing reasoning to click done the various steps, find the correct options, and see alternatives. But app developers tin besides expose definite actions utilizing MCP aliases Android’s app functions model — Google’s been laying the groundwork for the second since astatine slightest 2024. Where neither of those things exists, the thought is that Gemini will get successful location and fig it retired by itself. “We spot it arsenic a bid of exertion stacks, nary of which the personification really cares astir — they conscionable want it to happen,” Samat explains. “We deliberation it’s important to support each of those, truthful that complete clip you tin person an adjunct that tin complete each kinds of different tasks for you.”

So, successful a early wherever Gemini takes the instrumentality and uses your apps for you, isn’t location a anticipation of this rubbing app developers the incorrect way? Doesn’t Uber want the chance to punctual maine that I tin prevention a bunch of money by signing up for Uber One? “This exertion is happening,” Samat says, and the mobility for the developer organization is “…how do we fig retired the correct ways to clasp it together?”

The travel to figuring that early retired starts very soon indeed. For now, task automation is constricted to conscionable a fistful of apps, including Uber and Grubhub, and will beryllium disposable successful the US and Korea arsenic an early preview connected the S26 bid arsenic good arsenic the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL.