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Morning Edition · Thursday, September 3, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Vision Models Move Into Assistive Robotics and Department of Energy Science
SAM 3 and DINOv3 now segment X-ray and neutron imaging data in real time for a flagship Genesis Mission project led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Meta published two accounts of where its open vision models are being used. The first describes the University of Pittsburgh's robotic mobility and manipulation platform, which uses Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) to process camera and…
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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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