How Xiaomi-Robotics-0 Cracks the Real-Time Inference Bottleneck for VLA Models

Xiaomi-Robotics-0: How an Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model Solves Real-Time Inference Bottlenecks Core Question: When robots need to understand visual commands and execute complex actions within milliseconds, why do traditional models always lag behind? How does Xiaomi-Robotics-0 solve this industry challenge through architectural design? Image source: SINTEF Digital Why We Need a New Generation of VLA Models Core Question of This Section: What fundamental challenges do existing vision-language-action models face in real-world deployment? Robotics is undergoing a quiet revolution. Over the past five years, we have witnessed the explosive growth of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). However, when these …