# Asynchronous Robot Inference: Decoupling Action Prediction and Execution

DevFeed: [Asynchronous Robot Inference: Decoupling Action Prediction and Execution](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/asynchronous-robot-inference-decoupling-action-prediction-and-execution-7111.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/async-robot-inference>)

Author: Francesco Capuano; Steven Palma; Michel Aractingi; Mustafa Shukor; Dana Aubakirova; Adil Zouitine; Simon Alibert; Remi Cadene

Published: 2025-07-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [lerobot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lerobot.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [rest-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest-api.md>), [robotics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/robotics.md>), [smolvla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smolvla.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains asynchronous robot inference, which separates action prediction from execution so robots can replan while continuing to act. It describes a two-process architecture and reports faster task completion with comparable success rates for SmolVLA.

## Source excerpt

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