diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/smolvla/modeling_smolvla.py b/src/lerobot/policies/smolvla/modeling_smolvla.py
index 8ddb023da..261874b37 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/smolvla/modeling_smolvla.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/smolvla/modeling_smolvla.py
@@ -655,7 +655,6 @@ class VLAFlowMatching(nn.Module):
                 pad_masks.append(image_start_mask)
 
             img_emb = self.vlm_with_expert.embed_image(img)
-            img_emb = img_emb
 
             # Normalize image embeddings
             img_emb_dim = img_emb.shape[-1]