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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 15, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Build Meta's SAM 3 and DINO Into a $41.5 Million Robotic Wheelchair Program
The Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform (RAMMP), funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), uses open-weight perception models for object recognition and navigation. A prototype has climbed curbs and carried a drink.
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh are using Meta's Segment Anything Model 3 and DINO inside RAMMP, a program funded with up to $41.5 million from ARPA-H. Meta published an account of the integration…
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