# Meta Puts Segment Anything and DINO Into National-Lab Science Projects

The open-vocabulary perception stack is being applied to Department of Energy research and to assistive robotics, extending promptable vision beyond fixed label sets into production.

- Published: 2026-08-03T05:38:34.576Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/)

Meta described deployments of its open-vocabulary vision models, the Segment Anything family and the DINO self-supervised backbones, in two concrete settings: research projects under a national-lab initiative tied to Lawrence Berkeley Natio…

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