Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on 'compatibly licensed,' community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. 'SmolVLA aims to democratize access to vision-language-action [VLA] models and accelerate research toward generalist robotic agents,' writes Hugging Face in a blog post. 'SmolVLA is not only a lightweight yet capable model, but also a method for training and evaluating generalist robotics [technologies].' SmolVLA is a part of Hugging Face's rapidly expanding effort to establish an ecosystem of low-cost robotics hardware and software. Last year, the company launched LeRobot, a collection of robotics-focused models, datasets, and tools. More recently, Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, and unveiled several inexpensive robotics systems, including humanoids, for...
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