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WholeBodyVLA

Unified VLA for full humanoid locomotion and manipulation

WHAT DOES THIS ACTUALLY DO?

Most humanoid robot models handle walking and arm movements separately. WholeBodyVLA combines them — so the robot can walk across a room and pick something up in one seamless flow, the way a human does, without switching between two separate systems.

PARAMETERS
~3B
RELEASED
2025-02
LICENSE
Apache 2.0
ARCHITECTURE
Latent...
CAN I ACTUALLY RUN THIS?
5
Advanced
OUT OF 10

A new release with growing documentation. Requires serious GPU hardware and robotics infrastructure. Follow OpenDriveLab's GitHub closely as tooling matures.

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8GB disk space required
OVERVIEW

Framework for unified latent VLA controlling both locomotion and manipulation in humanoid robots simultaneously — one model, whole body.

TRAINED ON

Humanoid locomotion and bimanual manipulation combined dataset

ARCHITECTURE
Latent VLA + Unified Whole-body Policy
CAPABILITIES
Unified locomotion + manipulation control
Latent action space
Humanoid-specific design
Real-time whole-body control
REAL ROBOTICS USE CASES
HUMANOIDS

Walk to a table and pick up an object in one smooth motion

HOME ROBOTICS

Navigate and manipulate in unstructured home environments

RESEARCH

Whole-body humanoid control benchmark

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
MIN VRAM
16GB
REC VRAM
24GB
MIN RAM
32GB
DISK SPACE
8GB
JETSON
Not Supported
CPU ONLY
GPU Required
TESTED GPUs
RTX 4090A100H100
DEPLOYMENT PATHS
Local PC
24GB VRAM recommendedSUPPORTED
Docker
SUPPORTED
Cloud
SUPPORTED
ROS2
Humanoid ROS2 integrationSUPPORTED
Jetson
Too large for current JetsonNOT SUPPORTED
Isaac Sim
SUPPORTED
RELATED PAPERS
Whole-Body Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Human Reference
RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
OpenDriveLabFigure AIAgility Robotics
ORGANIZATIONS
OpenDriveLab
DIFFICULTY
RESEARCH

Lab-grade infrastructure needed

COMPUTE3/10
SETUP3/10
BEGINNER-FRIENDLY4/10
EDGE DEPLOYMENT
Jetson Not Supported
CPU-only Not Available
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Seeded and planned prompts — not live forum activity yet.