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The deployment of artificial intelligence models at the edge is increasingly critical for autonomous robots operating in GPS-denied environments where local, resource-efficient reasoning is essential. This work demonstrates the feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Justin Williams , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George , Mrinmoy Sarkar

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models extend vision-language models to embodied control by mapping natural-language instructions and visual observations to robot actions. Despite their capabilities, VLA systems face significant challenges due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Weifan Guan , Qinghao Hu , Aosheng Li , Jian Cheng

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a compelling framework for tackling complex robotic manipulation tasks, but they are often expensive to train. In this paper, we propose a novel VLA approach that leverages the competitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Max Argus , Jelena Bratulic , Houman Masnavi , Maxim Velikanov , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising approach to address the data scarcity challenge in robotics, enabling the development of generalizable visuomotor control policies. While models like OpenVLA showcase the potential…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are an emerging class of workloads critical for robotics and embodied AI at the edge. As these models scale, they demonstrate significant capability gains, yet they must be deployed locally to meet the…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Manoj Vishwanathan , Suvinay Subramanian , Anand Raghunathan

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) represent a significant frontier in embodied intelligence, aiming to bridge digital knowledge with physical-world interaction. Despite their remarkable performance, foundational VLAs are hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhaoshu Yu , Bo Wang , Pengpeng Zeng , Haonan Zhang , Ji Zhang , Zheng Wang , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have significantly advanced robotic manipulation by integrating vision-language models (VLMs), and action decoders into a unified architecture. However, their deployment on resource-constrained edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jiahong Chen , Jing Wang , Long Chen , Chuwei Cai , Jinghui Lu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are mainstream in embodied intelligence but face high inference costs. Edge-Cloud Collaborative (ECC) deployment offers an effective fix by easing edge-device computing pressure to meet real-time needs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihao Zheng , Hangyu Cao , Jiayu Chen , Sicheng Tian , Chenyue Li , Maoliang Li , Xinhao Sun , Guojie Luo , Xiang Chen

Vision-language-action (VLA) models represent a promising direction for developing general-purpose robotic systems, demonstrating the ability to combine visual understanding, language comprehension, and action generation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Pranav Guruprasad , Harshvardhan Sikka , Jaewoo Song , Yangyue Wang , Paul Pu Liang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong multi-modal reasoning capabilities, enabling direct action generation from visual perception and language instructions in an end-to-end manner. However, their substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Siyu Xu , Yunke Wang , Chenghao Xia , Dihao Zhu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a unified paradigm for robotic perception and control, enabling emergent generalization and long-horizon task execution. However, their deployment in dynamic, real-world environments is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yuntao Dai , Hang Gu , Teng Wang , Qianyu Cheng , Yifei Zheng , Zhiyong Qiu , Lei Gong , Wenqi Lou , Xuehai Zhou

Offering great potential in robotic manipulation, a capable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model is expected to faithfully generalize across tasks and platforms while ensuring cost efficiency (e.g., data and GPU hours required for…

End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving unify perception, reasoning, and control in a single neural network, achieving strong driving performance but requiring 20-60GB of GPU memory-far exceeding the 12-16GB…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Seungwoo Roh , Huiyeong Kim , Jong-Chan Kim

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, particularly diffusion-based architectures, demonstrate transformative potential for embodied intelligence but are severely hampered by high computational and memory demands stemming from extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yantai Yang , Yuhao Wang , Zichen Wen , Luo Zhongwei , Chang Zou , Zhipeng Zhang , Chuan Wen , Linfeng Zhang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for open-world robot manipulation, but their practical deployment is often constrained by cost: billion-scale VLM backbones and iterative diffusion/flow-based action…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically bridge the gap between perceptual and action spaces by pre-training a large-scale Vision-Language Model (VLM) on robotic data. While this approach greatly enhances performance, it also incurs…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate remarkable potential for generalizable robotic manipulation. The performance of VLA models can be improved by integrating with action chunking, a critical technique for effective control.…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are receiving increasing attention for their ability to enable robots to perform complex tasks by integrating visual context with linguistic commands. However, achieving efficient real-time performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 ByungOk Han , Jaehong Kim , Jinhyeok Jang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a unified framework for perception, language conditioning, and action generation, but many existing systems remain difficult to deploy in embedded robotic settings because of their computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Justin Williams , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George , Mrinmoy Sarkar
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