VLA models
RFM-1
United States
Early commercial robotics foundation model for warehouse manipulation, including a learned physics world model that predicts video outcomes of candidate actions. In August 2024 Amazon hired Covariant's founders and about a quarter of its staff and took a non-exclusive license to its models.
OrganizationCovariant
CountryUS
Release2024-03
Params (B)8
Open weightsno
Architecture8B any-to-any multimodal transformer performing autoregressive next-token prediction across text, images, video, robot actions and numerical sensor readings
Modalitiesvision, language, action, video, sensor
Embodimentsmanipulator
Training dataInternet data plus Covariant's proprietary multimodal warehouse production data (Covariant Brain fleet: picking, sortation, induction, depalletization since 2017)
Sources : Covariant (2024-03-11)IEEE Spectrum (2024-03-11)TechCrunch (2024-08-31)
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