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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 23, 2026Published at 2:19 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Build Assistive Robotics on Meta's Segment Anything and DINO Models
The RAMMP prototype uses SAM 3.1 and DINOv3 for real-time scene understanding, so the device can recognize obstacles and objects it was never trained on.
A team at the University of Pittsburgh is integrating Meta's SAM 3.1 and DINOv3 into an assistive robotics prototype called RAMMP, using the models for real-time perception of an environment that no fixed label set can anticipate. The examp…
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