LeRobot v0.5.0 adds Unitree G1 humanoid support and Pi0-FAST policies
lerobot v0.5.0 released, adding full unitree g1 humanoid support with whole-body control. introduces pi0-fast autoregressive vlas, real-time chunking for responsive inference, and streaming video encoding. includes envhub, nvidia isaaclab-arena integration, and modernization to python 3.12+.
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.5.0, expanding robotics support to the Unitree G1 humanoid with whole-body control and teleoperation. The update introduces Pi0-FAST, an autoregressive Vision-Language-Action model using Frequency-space Action Sequence Tokenization, and Real-Time Chunking (RTC) for low-latency inference. The codebase modernizes to Python 3.12+ and Transformers v5, adds EnvHub for simulation loading, and includes streaming video encoding to eliminate recording wait times.