diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/videovla/modeling_pi05.py b/src/lerobot/policies/videovla/modeling_pi05.py
index 493bd8e62..29ad1dc1a 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/videovla/modeling_pi05.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/videovla/modeling_pi05.py
@@ -826,15 +826,17 @@ class PI05Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
 
         Returns:
             Video embeddings of shape [B, num_video_tokens, hidden_dim] projected to
-            PaliGemma's hidden dimension, in the same dtype as PaliGemma's language model.
+            PaliGemma's hidden dimension, in the same dtype as the video_resampler.
         """
         if self.video_encoder is None:
             raise RuntimeError("Video encoder is not initialized. Set use_video_encoder=True in config.")
 
         device = video_frames.device
 
-        # Determine target dtype: match PaliGemma's language model dtype for consistency
-        paligemma_dtype = self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.language_model.embed_tokens.weight.dtype
+        # Determine target dtype: use the video_resampler's dtype for consistency
+        # Note: We use video_resampler (not embed_tokens) because embed_tokens may be
+        # tied/missing in some checkpoints, but video_resampler is always initialized
+        target_dtype = self.video_resampler.ln_kv.weight.dtype
 
         # Move video encoder to the same device if needed
         if next(self.video_encoder.parameters()).device != device:
@@ -869,8 +871,8 @@ class PI05Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
             # Shape: [B, num_patches * num_frames, hidden_size] (e.g., [B, 4096, 768])
             video_embeddings = video_outputs.last_hidden_state
 
-        # Convert to PaliGemma's dtype for consistency with the rest of the model
-        video_embeddings = video_embeddings.to(dtype=paligemma_dtype)
+        # Convert to target dtype for consistency with the video_resampler
+        video_embeddings = video_embeddings.to(dtype=target_dtype)
 
         # Apply Perceiver Resampler to reduce tokens (e.g., 4096 -> 128)
         # This uses cross-attention from learnable queries to the video tokens