LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve

This new release of LeRobot v0.6.0 adds new world model policies, VLAs, reward models, depth sensing, VLM-based dataset annotation, custom video encoding, cloud training on HF Jobs, and a simplified installation, along with a deployment CLI and unified simulation benchmarks. It also includes support for FSDP training and up to 2x faster data loading.

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LeRobot v0.6.0 introduces world model policies (VLA-JEPA, FastWAM, LingBot-VA) that learn to imagine the future, a wave of new VLAs (GR00T N1.7, MolmoAct2, EO-1, EVO1, Multitask DiT), and a new reward models API (Robometer, TOPReward).
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Announced: 07 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
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