# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-17T06:18:43.890Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-17/pittsburgh-researchers-build-an-advanced-powered-wheelchair
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [Meta](https://www.threads.com/@meta/post/DbTYB30EpeA/video-our-ai-models-are-powering-new-ways-of-moving-see-how-researchers-at-the/)

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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