Morning Edition · Saturday, August 1, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Move Into Assistive Robotics at the University of Pittsburgh
Researchers are using Segment Anything and DINO to give assistive robots the perception needed for real-world manipulation and navigation.
Meta says the University of Pittsburgh is using its Segment Anything (SAM) and DINO vision models to advance assistive robotics, applying open-vocabulary segmentation and general visual features to help robots perceive and manipulate object…
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