Alexander McMoil

EveryDayVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable Robotic Manipulation

While Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models map visual inputs and language instructions directly to robot actions, they often rely on costly hardware and struggle in novel or cluttered scenes. We introduce EverydayVLA, a 6-DOF manipulator that can be assembled for 300, capable of modest payloads and w…