Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook
Jun 06, 2025•3 min
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Episode description
It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week 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.
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