BlackCatRoboticsAI/smolvla-base

SmolVLA Base

SmolVLA — A compact Vision-Language-Action model from Hugging Face for robot manipulation. Takes images + language instructions, outputs robot actions.

Model Details

Field	Value
License	Apache 2.0 (commercial use ✅)
Input	Multi-view images (256×256) + language instruction + proprioception
Output	Robot actions
Framework	LeRobot / PyTorch
Format	Safetensors

Quick Start

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
from lerobot.policies.smolvla.modeling_smolvla import SmolVLA

# Download model
snapshot_download(repo_id="BlackCatRoboticsAI/smolvla-base", local_dir="./smolvla")

# Load policy
policy = SmolVLA.from_pretrained("./smolvla")

Use Cases

• Pick-and-place manipulation
• Object sorting
• Assembly tasks
• Language-driven control

Citation

@misc{lerobot2025smolvla,
  title={SmolVLA: Small Vision-Language-Action Model},
  author={Hugging Face},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face}
}