SmolVLA is out. Give me a boring first task

BenBench · 6 Jun 2025, 20:56 UTC

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BenBench
SO101 manipulation experiments from the SmolVLA release article
June 2025 research release. Demonstration results are not a production reliability guarantee. Research demonstration: Hugging Face SmolVLA team. Published 2025-06-03. Source

The SO101 clips in the release have got me interested. I need a first experiment small enough that I might actually finish it. No laundry, no making tea. Thinking one practice block into one tray. Too boring?

https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla

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GabrielAbbott0018
Replying to BenBench

Boring is excellent. Two locations and a clear failure are better than six objects and an argument about what happened.

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DavidBarnes0606
Replying to BenBench

Define 'into'. Touching the rim isn't in the tray.

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BenBench
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Fully inside and let go. I knew someone would catch me on that lol.

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RebeccaChan1126
Replying to BenBench

Photo of the final state would help. Then you can disagree about the same thing instead of remembering different moments.

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CarlaAbbott0053
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I'd keep the tray fixed for the first run. Change one awkward thing at a time.

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PriyaIO
Replying to BenBench

Fixed tray for the baseline, sure. I'd still reserve some different block positions for testing. Otherwise the lesson might just be that it remembers the setup.

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BenBench
Replying to BenBench

Right. Small task, not one identical attempt forever. Got it.

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