Living definition
What is SmolVLA?
Embodied AI & Robot LearningRobotics, Autonomy & Spatial
- As of
- 2026-10-21
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- Method
- v1.4.0
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 2026-10-21, verified readiness is 35 (claimed 35, reported 35, gap 0) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Use for supervised robotics research and constrained manipulation pilots.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for SmolVLA.
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06