# SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model trained on Lerobot Community Data

DevFeed: [SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model trained on Lerobot Community Data](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/smolvla-efficient-vision-language-action-model-trained-on-lerobot-community-data-7483.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla>)

Author: Dana Aubakirova; Andres Marafioti; merve; Aritra Roy Gosthipaty; Francesco Capuano; Loubna Ben Allal; Pedro Cuenca; Mustafa Shukor; Remi Cadene

Published: 2025-06-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.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>), [robotics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/robotics.md>), [smolvla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smolvla.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>)

## AI overview

SmolVLA is a 450M open-source vision-language-action model for robotics trained on community-shared LeRobot data. The article presents its simulation and real-world results, consumer-hardware focus, and asynchronous inference support.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.