LiteVLA-Edge: Quantized On-Device Multimodal Control for Embedded Robotics
Researchers developed LiteVLA-Edge, a deployment-oriented Vision-Language-Action model pipeline that enables fully on-device inference on embedded robotics hardware like Jetson Orin. The system achieves 150.5ms latency (6.6Hz) through FP32 fine-tuning combined with 4-bit quantization and GPU-accelerated inference, operating entirely offline within a ROS 2 framework.