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Use robot tools with local control

The VLA path and the tool-using planner use local execution. The planner calls learned or analytic skills and examines their results. Typed validation, fast control and protection stay local. The top deployment constraints are schematic and do not imply that all published VLAs use the same gate.

Use robot tools with local controlThe VLA path and the tool-using planner use local execution. The planner calls learned or analytic skills and examines their results. Typed validation, fast control and protection stay local. The top deployment constraints are schematic and do not imply that all published VLAs use the same gate. LEARNED POLICY PATH SEMANTIC TOOL LOOP Observations vision + robot state VLA policy learned action proposal Local control deployment constraints Frontier agent plan / check / recover Typed skill tools learned or analytic Local execution validate / control
Figure 7. The VLA path and semantic-tool path use local execution. An agent can call learned or analytic skills, examine outcomes and recover. Typed validation, high-rate control and protection stay near the robot. The top deployment constraints are schematic. Not all published VLAs have this gate. The author made this diagram. Open full-size SVG