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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Run Meta's Vision Models On-Device in a $41.5 Million Robotic Wheelchair Program
The RAMMP platform uses SAM 3 and DINOv3 locally so perception keeps working without a network connection, in a project funded by the health research agency ARPA-H.
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh are building a wheelchair with an integrated assistive arm under an award of up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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