<ul><li>AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA, trained on community-shared datasets to outperform larger models in virtual and real-world environments.</li><li>SmolVLA, with 450 million parameters, is designed to democratize access to vision-language-action models and accelerate research in generalist robotic agents.</li><li>Hugging Face's SmolVLA can run on a single consumer GPU or even a MacBook, offering a lightweight yet capable model for robotics tasks.</li><li>In addition to Hugging Face, other players in the open robotics realm include Nvidia, K-Scale Labs, Dyna Robotics, Physical Intelligence, and RLWRLD.</li></ul>

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

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