# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-01T05:44:51.300Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/)

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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