SmolVLA
Powerful robotics VLA that runs on consumer hardware
SmolVLA launched on June 6, 2025 with 139 votes, #283 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
SmolVLA is a compact (450M) open-source Vision-Language-Action model for robotics. Trained on community data, it runs on consumer hardware & outperforms larger models. Released with code & recipes.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Today, we introduce SmolVLA , a compact (450M), open-source Vision-Language-Action model for robotics that runs on consumer hardware. Over the past few years, Transformers have driven remarkable progress in AI, from language models capable of human-like reasoning to multimodal systems that understand both images and text. However, in real-world robotics, advancements have been much slower. Robots still struggle to generalize across diverse objects, environments, and tasks. This limited progress stems from a lack of high-quality, diverse data and the absence of models that can reason and act like humans in the physical world . In response to these challenges, the field has recently turned to…from huggingface.co
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