
Armfull — Bimanual VLA Manipulation with Multi-Modal Reasoning Armfull is a perception-to-action pipeline for dual-arm robotic manipulation, demonstrating how a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policy can interpret natural-language instructions, reason over camera observations, and coordinate two SO-101 robotic arms in a simulated dinner-table environment. Architecture: The system has three layers: (1) SmolVLA Policy (`lerobot/smolvla_base`, 450M parameters), which processes three 256×256 camera images, a 6-dim robot state, and language instructions to generate 6-dim action chunks; (2) a Bimanual Coordination Planner that assigns each arm one of four roles—idle, active, holding, or coordinated—and manages multi-arm interactions; and (3) a MuJoCo Dinner-Table Environment containing two SO-101 arms, drawer, plate, mug, bottle, spoons, and forks. Object positions, friction, and lighting are randomized by seed for robustness testing. Intel Hardware: The pipeline runs entirely on an Intel Core 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge CPU. OpenVINO conversion of the SmolVLM2-500M backbone was attempted but failed because dynamic attention masking prevented static tracing, so the system falls back to PyTorch inference. It achieves 10.18 ms mean latency, 12.60 ms P95 latency, and 98.25 inferences/sec. Results: Across 10 deterministic seeds, 7/10 completed successfully, with a 100% success rate on completed runs; the remaining three were interrupted by a power outage. Each run produces a demonstration video. Reproducibility: Includes automated installation, `sanity_check.py`, `benchmark_intel.py`, and `run_demo_10seeds.py`, with all configurations in `configs/default.yaml`. Stack: Python 3.11, PyTorch 2.10, LeRobot 0.4.4, OpenVINO 2024.4, MuJoCo 3.2.3, Transformers 5.17, Gymnasium, NumPy, OpenCV, and imageio.
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