Meet an Open Source Visual Language Action (VLA) model - Open VLA
An open source model for generalistic robot manipulation
Generalistic Robot Manipulation
In the rapidly evolving field of robotics, a significant challenge is to develop generalist models that can enable a robot to perform a diverse range of tasks. We have written before on the growing investments in developing a general purpose robot here. A general purpose robot can be far more useful to humans than today’s robots which are limited to factory settings where they are trained for tasks, but cannot operate in environments such as peoples’ homes where it is difficult to retrain and recalibrate robots. With the goal to facilitate a general purpose robot, a team of researchers led by Stanford University explored the development of OpenVLA, a powerful generalist robot manipulation policy that can perform across a wide variety of tasks. A summary of OpenVLA is captured in the following screenshot from the paper.
Open VLA
OpenVLA is a robot manipulation policy that is trained on a…