Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously.

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...

Deepseek VL-2 is a sophisticated vision-language model designed to address complex multimodal tasks with remarkable efficiency and precision. Built on a new mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, this ...

As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

A research team has developed a chest X-ray vision-language foundation model, MaCo, reducing the dependency on annotations while improving both clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. The study ...

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...

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The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.

Milestone Systems has released an advanced vision language model (VLM) specializing in traffic understanding, powered by NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, a framework designed to enable advanced reasoning across ...

Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. is a reporter who ...