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NORA: Small, Open-Source Robot AI Rivals Larger Models in Vision, Language, and Action

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Overview

  • NORA is a small open-source vision-language-action (VLA) model for robotic tasks
  • Built on Microsoft's Phi-2 language model and CLIP vision encoder
  • Trained on diverse embodied task datasets
  • Achieves strong performance while being lightweight and efficient
  • Released with complete training code and model weights

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NORA represents a new kind of AI system that can see, understand language, and take actions in the physical world. Think of it like teaching a robot to understand both what it sees and what you tell it to do. The system combines visual understanding (like recognizing objects in...

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