# Hugging Face — SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model trained on Lerobot Community Data

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-06-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: SmolVLA, SmolVLA-450M, smolvla_base
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1685-smolvla-efficient-vision-language-action-model-trained-on-lerobot-community-data

SmolVLA is a compact (450M) open-source Vision-Language-Action model for robotics, trained on community data, that outperforms larger models on simulation and real-world tasks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla:

> Today, we introduce SmolVLA, a compact (450M), open-source Vision-Language-Action model for robotics that runs on consumer hardware.

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