# Hugging Face — `LeRobotDataset:v3.0`: Bringing large-scale datasets to `lerobot`

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-09-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-datasets-v3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1621-lerobotdataset-v3-0-bringing-large-scale-datasets-to-lerobot

Hugging Face releases LeRobotDataset:v3.0, a new version of its standardized dataset format for robot learning. The update packs multiple episodes per file to overcome file-system limitations, adds native streaming support, and provides a one-liner conversion utility.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-datasets-v3:

> LeRobotDataset:v3 packs multiple episodes in a single file, using relational metadata to retrieve information at the individual episode level from multi-episode files. The new format also natively supports accessing datasets in streaming mode, allowing to process large datasets on the fly.We provide a one-liner util to convert all datasets in the LeRobotDataset format to the new format

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