Modern phones pack a good bit of compute, and can run things like VLAs decently well. Of course, that would require today's phones to age out of "being used as

Modern phones pack a good bit of compute, and can run things like VLAs decently well. Of course, that would require today's phones to age out of "being used as a phone" bracket, and robotics VLAs to become actually useful. But things like the Comma AI autopilot hardware use slightly obsolete smartphone chips internally - so it's not like it's impossible to run a useful AI on this kind of HW.