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title: "SmolVLM2-ROS2"
year: 2025
status: active
role: "Creator & Maintainer"
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# SmolVLM2-ROS2

On-device Vision-Language Model for robotics — SmolVLM2 running via ONNX Runtime inside a ROS2 node for scene understanding and spatial reasoning

**Stack:** C++17, Python, ROS2, ONNX Runtime, SmolVLM2, Transformers

**GitHub:** <https://github.com/Geekgineer/SmolVLM2-ROS2>

*Full content: <https://geekgineer.com/work/smolvlm2-ros2>*