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SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics

Shukor, Aubakirova, Capuano et al. · Hugging Face · arXiv:2506.01844

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A 450M VLA trained only on community-contributed LeRobot datasets that runs on a single consumer GPU and supports asynchronous inference on low-cost arms.

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