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(VLA Series Ep.1)","description":"\ud83e\udd16 The first video in the series about Visual Language Action policies for robotics!\n\nIf you've seen recent videos of robots folding laundry, washing dishes, or organizing entire rooms, they're likely powered by Vision Language Action Models (VLAs) - they type of robotics policies that use the power of retrained LLMs and Visual encoders to control real-life robots.\n\n\ud83c\udfaf What You'll Learn in This Episode:\n\u2705 What are VLAs? - The \"LLMs for robots\" explained simply  \n\u2705 Architecture Deep Dive - How text, vision, and actions combine  \n\u2705 Evolution from Single-Task - Why this approach is changing the pattern of policy training\n\n\ud83d\udd25 Coming Up in This Series:\n- Pi-0 from Physical Intelligence\n- SmolVLA from HuggingFace LeRobot\n- Gr00t N1.5 from NVIDIA\n- Deep discussion about architecture\n- Overview of fine-tuning VLAs at home on cheap hardware like SO-ARM100 and LeKiwi\n- And other related topics\n\n\u26a1 Key Takeaways:\n- VLAs are essentially LLMs adapted for robot control\n- They combine pre-trained vision and language understanding\n- Current models require fine-tuning, but already can show some generalization\n- We're moving from single-task to multi-task robot policies\n\n\ud83c\udfaf Timestamps:\n0:00 Intro\n3:41 From LLMs \u2192 VLMs \u2192 VLAs\n6:29 VLA architecture explained\n16:47 Policy training patterns\n30:03 Preparation for finetunning \n34:04 Outro\n\n\ud83c\udfac Series Playlist: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLaqgu2SjelC6yZprhmbkLZUGXw3njRxME\n\n\ud83c\udfac Other related videos:\n- Short intro about SO-ARM: https:\/\/youtu.be\/n32OmyoQkfs\n- Big video about SO-ARM and LeRobot: https:\/\/youtu.be\/DeBLc2D6bvg\n- Intro into LeKiwi: https:\/\/youtu.be\/lJ6PH--el54\n- Multimodality in robotics: https:\/\/youtu.be\/6oZe_tKE3YA\n- Robot MCP project: https:\/\/youtu.be\/EmpQQd7jRqs\n- ROS2 robot: https:\/\/youtu.be\/9Fvx5t2e66k\n\n\ud83d\udd17 Resources & Code:\n- LeKiwi Robot: https:\/\/github.com\/SIGRobotics-UIUC\/LeKiwi\n- SO-ARM Kit: https:\/\/github.com\/TheRobotStudio\/SO-ARM100\n- LeRobot Library: https:\/\/github.com\/huggingface\/lerobot\n- My Dataset: https:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/IliaLarchenko\/vla_demo\n- Pi-0 Paper: https:\/\/www.physicalintelligence.company\/blog\/pi0\n- SmolVLA: https:\/\/huggingface.co\/blog\/smolvla  \n- Gr00t: https:\/\/research.nvidia.com\/labs\/gear\/gr00t-n1_5\/\n\n\ud83d\udcac Join the Discussion:\nWhat VLA-related topics do you want me to cover next? 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