Black Forest Labs Launched FLUX 3 Action Robotic Model
The new 7-billion-parameter open-weight model enables advanced robotic control through video and audio integration.
Updated on Sept. 23, 2026 in Robotics
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Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Action, a new open-weight robotic model that utilizes Self-Flow technology to synthesize images, audio, and video. The system achieved a 95% success rate on soft-body manipulation tasks during performance testing at Audi.
Why it matters
This release marks a significant advancement in robot training, as the model requires only 30 minutes of demonstration data to fine-tune complex movements. Its ability to translate visual sequences into physical control commands simplifies the integration of multimodal AI into robotic hardware.
FLUX 3 Action is a 7-billion-parameter model with an end-to-end latency of 80 to 101 milliseconds on consumer hardware. It supports video clip generation up to 20 seconds long with synchronized audio.
The players
Black Forest Labs
This technology company specializes in developing open-weight multimodal artificial intelligence models.
mimic robotics
Based in Zurich, this robotics company partners with AI firms to advance mechanical autonomy.
Audi
This multinational automotive manufacturer provides testing facilities for advanced robotic assembly and manipulation tasks.
The details
The model architecture pairs a video-prediction backbone with a decoder to translate visual data into actionable control commands for robots. Black Forest Labs developed the model in partnership with Zurich-based mimic robotics to create the FLUX-mimic platform.
Timeline
September 23, 2026: Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Action.
End of 2026: Black Forest Labs will release the FLUX 3 Dev weights.
The Tech Race
This release represents a significant step in the transition toward multimodal robotics that rely on shared video-prediction backbones. It follows a pattern set by the RoboLab-120 leaderboard, where models are increasingly evaluated on their ability to interpret visual sequences for physical control.
The use of consumer hardware for the model's 80 to 101 millisecond latency suggests that developers may soon implement high-end robotics with more accessible, lower-cost computing power. This democratization of control commands could lead to faster adoption of intelligent automation in smaller-scale manufacturing and service industries.
The takeaway
FLUX 3 Action demonstrates that high-performance robotic manipulation now requires significantly less training data than previous generation models. Developers looking to implement similar systems should note that current performance metrics are measured against specific industrial tasks.
What happens next
Black Forest Labs is scheduled to release the weights of the FLUX 3 Dev multimodal backbone by the end of 2026.
Further reading
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Crypto Briefing.
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