# Hugging Face — Asynchronous Robot Inference: Decoupling Action Prediction and Execution

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: ACT, OpenVLA, PI0, SmolVLA
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/async-robot-inference
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1660-asynchronous-robot-inference-decoupling-action-prediction-and-execution

Asynchronous inference for robot action prediction and execution decouples these processes to reduce latency and improve responsiveness, achieving a ~2x speed-up in task completion with comparable success rate.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/async-robot-inference:

> Asynchronous inference mitigates both these limitations by decoupling action prediction from action execution.

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