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Morning Edition · Monday, August 17, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Build an Advanced Powered Wheelchair on Meta's Open Vision Models
The RAMMP project uses Segment Anything and DINO to give a robotic mobility platform open-vocabulary perception without task-specific annotated datasets.
The University of Pittsburgh's RAMMP project, a robotic mobility platform combining advanced robotics with a new operating system and digital twin simulation, runs on Meta's open-source vision models. The team uses Segment Anything for prom…
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