Morning Edition · Sunday, August 2, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Uses Meta's Perception Models to Build Open-Vocabulary Assistive Robots
The University of Pittsburgh is pairing Segment Anything and DINO with assistive robotics so systems can recognize and manipulate arbitrary objects for users with disabilities.
The University of Pittsburgh is applying Meta's Segment Anything and DINO models to assistive robotics, using open-vocabulary perception so a robot can identify and grasp objects a user names rather than only items it was pre-trained on. Th…
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