NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community
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NVIDIA and Hugging Face pushing more models and frameworks into LeRobot lowers the barrier for serious robotics experimentation—simulation, data, and control are getting standardized. If you run physical operations, the window to prototype low-cost robotics pilots with off-the-shelf stacks is opening wider this year.
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