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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 6, 2026Published at 2:32 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Researchers Put Meta's Vision Models On-Device in a $41.5 Million Robotic Wheelchair Program
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is funding a five-year effort that runs Segment Anything and DINOv3 locally so perception does not depend on network connectivity.
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh are building a combined powered wheelchair and robotic arm under a program funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) at up to $41.5 millio…
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