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VLA adaptation architecture

VLA-Adapter

VLA-Adapter studies a lightweight connection between a visual-language backbone and action generation, with a public implementation and adaptation examples.

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Sources 2
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

VLA-Adapter research project

OpenHelix Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

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Architecture and scope

The project’s bridge between perception-language features and the action head is the relevant architectural choice. The Pro code path and later changes should be treated as separate implementation variants.

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Sources 2
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

VLA-Adapter research project

OpenHelix Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Integration and evaluation

The repository documents ALOHA/Cobot Magic support in addition to simulation workflows. This establishes specific integration work, not universal bimanual compatibility.

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Sources 2
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

VLA-Adapter research project

OpenHelix Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Evidence boundary

Future roadmap entries in the repository are not released models.

Source contextPrimary specReviewed
Sources 2
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

VLA-Adapter research project

OpenHelix Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Model identity

Developer
OpenHelix Team
Primary specReviewed
Sources 1
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

Exact version / scope
VLA-Adapter reference release; Pro implementation separate
Primary specReviewed
Sources 1
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

Category
VLA adaptation architecture
Primary specReviewed
Sources 1
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

Access model
Public code and checkpoints
Primary specReviewed
Sources 1
OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

License
Not publicly disclosed

Inputs, outputs & embodiment

Inputs
Not publicly disclosed
Outputs
Not publicly disclosed
Embodiment
Not publicly disclosed

Implementation & training

Compute
Not publicly disclosed
Training-data disclosures
Not publicly disclosed
Integrations
Not publicly disclosed

Reported benchmark results

Context before scores. Results from different benchmarks are not directly comparable. A simulation result does not establish real-world reliability, safety or commercial availability.
No result meets our complete revision and methodology requirements for this record yet. Inspect the original benchmark documentation before comparing published scores.

What this evidence does not establish

  • Future roadmap entries in the repository are not released models.
  • Pricing and deployment service terms were not verified.

Relationships & deployments

modelOpenHelix ↗modelOpenVLA-OFT ↗modelACT ↗

Related reading is an editorial crosslink. Sourced connections describe relationships reported in the cited material. A link to a versioned profile does not establish compatibility with that version unless the connection note explicitly identifies it.

Record history & verified changes

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Initial reviewed record. No subsequent field change has been recorded.

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Sources & evidence

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OpenHelix-Team/VLA-Adapter official repository

OpenHelix-Team · Repository · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Factual summary and attribution only; no upstream prose, images, weights, or dataset redistributed.

Official README inspected live. Repository code terms do not automatically cover model weights, data, or third-party assets.

Referenced by 1 record: VLA-Adapter

md-adapter-project
VLA-Adapter research project

OpenHelix Team · Paper · Publication date not disclosed · Source accessed 2026-09-28

Factual summary and attribution only; no upstream prose, images, weights, or dataset redistributed.

Referenced by 1 record: VLA-Adapter