# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-03T06:26:17.363Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/)

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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