Hugging Face Releases LeRobot v0.6.0 and Robotics Startups Expand

로보틱스 | Tue Jul 07 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 2 sources

Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0 featuring world model policies and new VLA models, while YC robotics startups continued hiring.

Analysis

[Hugging Face LeRobot] released LeRobot v0.6.0 ^[2]

• Introduced world model policies VLA-JEPA
• FastWAM
• and LingBot-VA
• Added reward model APIs Robometer and TOPReward
• Unified six simulation benchmarks under lerobot-eval
• Supported FSDP training and HF Jobs cloud training

[LeRobot VLA Model Zoo] added a large set of new VLA models ^[2]

• Support for GR00T N1.7
• MolmoAct2
• and EO-1
• Added Multitask DiT and EVO1
• VLA-JEPA based on Qwen3-VL-2B predicts the future in latent space
• World model is removed at inference
• enabling supervised learning without additional cost

[LeRobot] strengthened dataset and deployment pipelines ^[2]

• End-to-end depth sensing support
• VLM-based automatic language annotation pipeline
• Custom video encoding and up to 2x faster data loading
• DAgger-style human-in-the-loop correction via lerobot-rollout CLI

[Stealth Robotics Startup (YC S26)] posted a Principal Engineer job listing ^[1]

• Part of the Y Combinator S26 batch
• Based in Palo Alto
• Operating in stealth mode

Sources

• [1] Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto) - Hacker News
• [2] LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve - Hugging Face Blog