A MODULAR VLA STACK

robots that see, think move

Lightweight modular Vision–Language–Action for robotics. Not one giant transformer, specialized modules talk through a World Model.

Kinetic hero
SEE. THINK. MOVE.
SIM-FIRST · MOCK + MUJOCOEVENT-DRIVEN WORLD MODELAPACHE-2.0 OPEN SOURCE↓ 60-SECOND DEMO

Vision–Language–Action at the Intersection ofSoftware & Robotics

World Model is the integration bus. Language never emits joint commands. Safety lives in the motion controller. LLM and planner run on events, not every tick.

Kinetic design principles

THE PIPELINE

How it moves

01

Perceive

Vision and sensors feed scene understanding into the World Model. Optional YOLO backend for pretrained detection.

02

Understand

Language and planner turn instructions into subtasks, event-driven, not every control tick. Optional BitNet for local reasoning.

03

Act

Policy → control → robot. BC-trained policy, damped-least-squares IK, and optional LeRobot/SmolVLA pretrained checkpoints.

04

Learn

train-bc for behavior cloning, multi-task eval across pick and place, and vla-bench for systems benchmarks.

A Stack You CanRun Today

BackendDetailEntryStatus
Mock simAlways works, lightweight arm, no extra depskinetic demo pick60 s
MuJoCoPhysics + 3D viewer tabletop scenekinetic demo mujocoOptional
BitNet LLM1.58-bit local reasoner on replan eventsconfigs/bitnet.yamlOptional
LeRobot / SmolVLAPretrained HF VLA checkpoints through the looppolicy.backend: lerobot~27 s / 50-action chunk on CPU
ROS2Joint trajectory adapter for real armsrobots.ros2Dry-run

Benchmarks

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