--- title: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: From Seeing to... description: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine vision, language understanding, and physical action to let robots interpret instructions and act in the real world,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vision-language-action-vla-models-from-seeing-to-acting-with-ai-training-data-cw2kbituu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: From Seeing to Acting with AI Training Data | daily.dev og:description: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine vision, language understanding, and physical action to let robots interpret instructions and act in the real world,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vision-language-action-vla-models-from-seeing-to-acting-with-ai-training-data-cw2kbituu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Cw2kBITuu.png og:image:alt: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: From Seeing to Acting with AI Training Data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: From Seeing to Acting with AI Training Data **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine vision, language understanding, and physical action to let robots interpret instructions and act in the real world, exemplified by Google DeepMind's RT-2. The piece explains why VLA training data is more complex than traditional image annotation, requiring temporal sequences, trajectories, and multimodal supervision (images, video, audio, text, 3D point clouds). It outlines potential applications in warehousing, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, autonomous vehicles, drones, and service robots, then pivots into a promotional pitch for Infolks' data annotation services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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