Does VLA-JEPA run on Franka Research 3?

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Caveats

• Evidence is the authors' own lab evaluation (100 demonstrations, three pick-and-place tasks); the upstream repo ships training and simulation-evaluation scripts but no FR3 deployment code or FR3 checkpoint.

Evidence 1 source; the cell shows the highest tier

1. T1 · upstream documentedpapersource 2026-02-10verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)

   The VLA-JEPA paper's real-world experiments fine-tune and evaluate VLA-JEPA on a Franka Research 3 with a Robotiq 2F-85 gripper and three RealSense D435 cameras (two third-person, one wrist).

   “For real-world experiments, we designed table-top manipulation tasks using a Franka Research 3 arm equipped with a Robotiq 2F-85 gripper. We collected 100 human demonstration trajectories for training, which include 3 picking and placing tasks.”

   https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10098