Living definition
What is SmolVLA?
Embodied AI & Robot Learning Robotics, Autonomy & Spatial
- As of
- 2026-07-23
- Revision
- 2026-07-25.0
- Method
- v1.3.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
SmolVLA is a compact vision-language-action model for robot manipulation, developed by Hugging Face and designed to run efficiently on consumer-grade hardware by pairing a lightweight vision-language backbone with an action-generation head trained on crowd-sourced robotics datasets.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-07-23, verified readiness is 57 (claimed 70, reported 65, gap 13) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Proceed with caution.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for SmolVLA.
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)
- Dataset
- 2026-07-25.0
- Hash
- sha256:a11c1791b16a17cb71908f5839e4adce20feb5614a6564d4910b1665c0b073c7
- Approved
- 2026-07-25