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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 22, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
A $41.5 Million Federal Health Project Puts Meta's Vision Models on Battery-Powered Wheelchairs
The University of Pittsburgh runs DINOv3 and Segment Anything on-device for real-time perception in a robotic wheelchair and arm, accepting lower boundary precision for stable frame rates.
The University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories received up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) for a five-year program to build the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulat…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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