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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 9, 2026Published at 3:02 AM EDT · New York
A $41.5 Million Robotic Wheelchair Program Runs Meta's Vision Models Directly on Battery-Powered Hardware
The University of Pittsburgh team behind the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) project says DINOv3 and Segment Anything execute on-device, removing the connectivity dependency that makes cloud perception unsafe for mobility equipment.
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh received up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to build the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform, a whe…
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