# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-02T05:44:51.872Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-02/pittsburgh-uses-meta-s-perception-models-to-build-open-vocab
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/)

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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