CSCI 7000: VLA Foundations for Robotics

Spring 2026 • Instructor: Christoffer Heckman

Course Materials

Complete course information, grading policy, and schedule.

Set up your development environment and submit your first PR.

Implement a decoder-only Transformer from scratch for robotic trajectories.

Critical analysis of VLA research papers (1 required).

Textbook contribution with implementation (research or engineering track).

All assignments must be submitted via pull request to the course repository.