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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Are Running Meta's Perception Models On-Device for a Robotic Wheelchair
DINOv3 and Segment Anything run on battery-powered hardware in a platform funded by up to 41.5 million dollars from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
The University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories is building the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform, funded by up to 41.5 million dollars from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)…
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Over the coming months, labs ship general-purpose robotics model suites that bridge vision-language understanding to physical navigation and manipulation, pushing foundation models into embodied action.
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