# VLA (Vision-Language-Action)

Foundation models that take camera input + a plain-English instruction (‘put the red parts in bin 3’) and output robot movements. VLA adoption tripled in a year — now in ~40% of new robot deployments. Programming is becoming prompting.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/iot-robotics/7

_IoT & Robotics: AI in the Physical World — lesson 7 of 20 (DEFINITION)_

Foundation models that take camera input + a plain-English instruction (‘put the red parts in bin 3’) and output robot movements. VLA adoption tripled in a year — now in ~40% of new robot deployments. Programming is becoming prompting.

Source: [State of Robotics 2026](https://www.roboticscenter.ai/state-of-robotics-2026?utm_source=robauto)

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