VLA

NVIDIA engineer Asier Arranz demonstrated Gemma 4 running as a vision-language agent (VLA) on a Jetson Orin Nano Super with 8GB RAM. The model autonomously decides when to access a webcam based on user queries, with no hardcoded triggers—performing speech-to-text, vision analysis, and text-to-speech entirely locally.

NVIDIA released GR00T N1.7, a 3-billion parameter open-source Vision-Language-Action model for humanoid robots with commercial licensing. The model was trained on 20,854 hours of human egocentric video data and demonstrates the first documented scaling law for robot dexterity, where increasing human video data from 1,000 to 20,000 hours more than doubles task completion rates.