# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-22T06:18:28.650Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine](https://www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/university-pittsburgh-lead-team-415m-project-create-robotic-wheelchair)

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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