Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Alibaba affiliate Ant Group, has announced the open-source release of LingBot-VLA, a vision-language-action (VLA) model designed to serve as a “universal brain” for real-world robotics, which “helps reduce post-training costs and accelerate the path to scalable deployment”, according to the company.
So far, LingBot-VLA has been successfully adapted to robots from leading manufacturers, including Galaxea Dynamics and AgileX Robotics, demonstrating strong cross-morphology transfer capabilities across diverse robot platforms.
The model’s performance was evaluated on the GM-100 benchmark, a comprehensive evaluation suite open-sourced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University that comprises 100 real-world tasks. [Read more…] about Robbyant open-sources LingBot-VLA model as a ‘universal brain’ for robots